adoption services
Family-matching organizations
Adoption services are organizations or agencies that facilitate the legal process of placing children with adoptive families.
They handle matching children—whether infants, older children, or those in foster care—with prospective parents, conducting home studies, background checks, and counseling.
Services may be public (government-run) or private, and may specialize in domestic or international adoptions: They went through an adoption services agency to adopt from overseas.
- guardianshipLegal care of another
- background checksInvestigation of someone's past
- home visitAppointment at patient's residence
- permanency planningChild welfare placement strategy
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
home studies · birth mother · parental rights · relinquishment · child welfare · consent forms · orphanages · waiting child · custody agreements · parenting classes · social work · case management · family support · legal contracts · caseworker · support groups · waiting · closed
- Social Programswelfare office, unemployment benefits, disability benefits, TANF, family allowances
- Charity Workvolunteer programs, clothing drive, clothing drives, toy drive, meal program
- family supportchildcare, eldercare, caregiving, home care, respite care
- public servicespolice, police department, police station, police stations, police patrols
- social servicessocial workers, social work, welfare office, case workers, job training
- animal welfareanimal rights, humane societies, humane treatment, shelters, animal ethics
adoption servicesnatural conception
Pregnancy achieved without fertility treatment
fertility treatments · reproductive medicine · fertility clinics · assisted reproduction · natural childbirth
adoption servicesabandonment
Act of leaving permanently
child protective services · child removal · family separation
adoption servicesfoster care
Supervised substitute parenting
kinship care · respite care · institutional care · group homes