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Informational Meeting for Prospective Adoptive Families
For more information, please call 530-432-7373

Upcoming Informational Meetings

Saturday, January 27, 2007 1:00pm - 4:00pm Rough & Ready, CA

Saturday, March 3, 2007 1:00pm - 4:00pm Rough & Ready, CA

Are you considering adopting? There is a baby for you!
Have you thought about adopting a child but don’t know where to start? Lifetime Adoption is holding free informational meetings and teleconferences to help families learn more about how they can be blessed through adoption.

Informational Meeting at Lifetime Adoption Center.

Lifetime's qualified staff will address your adoption concerns, as well as answer other questions, such as:

• What do you need to do to get started?
• What is independent adoption?
• How much does it cost?
• How to save money in your adoption
• Answers to your legal questions
• How long does it take?
• What Adoption Services are important for your success?

 

Click here to fill out a free application.

If you are interested in attending a meeting in your state, please let us know.

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A magazine providing trusted adoption information and inspiration.

Are You Seeking Resources to Fund Your Adoption?
Finally, an Adoption Financing Program to Help Families Move Closer to a Successful Adoption!

Lifetime Adoption is proud to introduce our new adoption financing program, created with you in mind! Whether you are looking for funds to help pay for your adoption, pay off your fertility treatments, or add on to your house to help accommodate your growing family, this program is exactly what you have been looking for!

Click here to apply today!

Teleconferences

If you are interested in a teleconference, you may sign up for Lifetime's newsletter by clicking here and it will send you notices for upcoming classes.

AdoptingOnline.com, the new book by Lifetime's founder, Mardie Caldwell, C.O.A.P., is being featured this week on Dr. Laura Schlessinger's radio show. Dr. Laura has called AdoptingOnline.com "an awesome resource for anyone interested in adopting."

"An Awesome Resource for Anyone Interested in Adoption!"
-Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Click play to listen to Dr. Laura's comments:

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President & Mrs. Bush Encourage Adoption!

President Bush with a Lifetime Baby! Click here to Read More

"The adoption of a boy or a girl is a moment of joy for a family, and it's an act of great generosity. When parents share their homes and all they have with a child, the child they adopt and love as their own, all their lives are transformed forever."
-- President George W. Bush

The President and First Lady have promoted adoption and have passed legislation that encourages both families and states to pursue adoption, including providing increased funding and tax credits for those who do.

Learn more about how President Bush is helping families welcome children into their homes through adoption via the links below:

Adoption Promotion Act of 2003
Strong Families, Safe Children

"For the sake of our children this nation has a responsibility to encourage adoption of children at all ages, from infants to adolescents."
-- President George W. Bush

Have You Seen the Lifetime Staff Pages?

Meet your Lifetime staff by clicking here. You can visit staff members' pages to learn more about the team that is working for you.

A Call to Action

We are hearing from more and more birthmothers about the difficulties they encounter with birthfathers when trying to make an adoption plan. Refusal to cooperate, followed by refusal to support the child either financially or emotionally after they are born, is never in the best interest of the child. Read about Birth Father Registries and learn what you can do to help women make the choice they are choosing for their child, adoption.

Learn More about Adoption Online at
Let's Talk Adoption... with Mardie Caldwell

Mardie Caldwell host a new weekly radio talk show focused on Adoption. "Lets Talk Adoption …with Mardie Caldwell. The program can be heard world wide on the Internet on LetsTalkAdoption.com.

The hour-long program features guests with expertise in different aspects of the adoption experience. Broadcasting live every Tuesday from 8am - 9am PT and rebroadcasts again at 8pm - 9pm PT Tuesday evenings.

Programs are engaging, informing and inspiring, providing listeners with practical ideas they can use immediately. Topics range from adoption law to a birth parent perception of adoption to financing your adoption. Also discussed are new books, adoption in the news and answers to questions from our adoption mail bag. To find out more or listen, click here.

Mardie Caldwell is a Certified Open Adoption Practitioner. She has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, Cable, Fox, BBC and PBS affiliated programs, Parenting Life, Parenting Magazine, Adoptive Family magazine, and Wisdom Radio , bringing families and birth parents together and sharing the positive message of adoption since 1986.

Caldwell has swiftly become one of the nations leading authorities on adoption using the Internet. Many, including Dr. Laura Schlessinger, have endorsed Caldwell’s book AdoptingOnline.com

ATTENTION: Lifetime contracted families on active duty military, part of the military reserves or special duty military:

If at least one spouse in your family is currently being deployed in the service of our country to aid in the fight against terrorism, Lifetime is offering you the option of an extended contract freeze.

A contract freeze allows your family to put adoption your plans on hold temporarily, to be resumed at a future date. There is no charge for a contract freeze, nor is any contract time or money lost.

If a contract freeze would help your family at this critical time, please contact your Lifetime coordinator to discuss this option for your contract. We would like to help in any way we can.

We appreciate your sacrifices. May God be with your family.

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Lifetime Adoption Foundation

Families Needed

Lifetime Adoption is currently looking for African American or African American mixed couples looking to adopt African American or African American mixed race children of any gender. We currently have numerous birth mothers waiting for you to contact us. To learn more about the grant programs available, visit African American Adoptions Online today.

Open Adoption is blessing both birth and adoptive families in so many ways. OpenAdoption.com encourages you to learn more about Open Adoption through the articles and information contained in their website. Learn how you can touch the life of someone else through adoption, and how your life in return may be blessed.

A Big Leap in Adoption Tax Credits

You may be able to take a tax credit of up to $10,160 for qualifying expenses paid to adopt an eligible child (including a child with special needs). The adoption credit is an amount subtracted directly from your tax liability.

The income limit on the adoption credit or exclusion is based on your modified adjusted gross income (modified AGI). If your modified AGI is $152,390 or less, the income limit will not affect your credit or exclusion. If your modified AGI is more than $152,390, your credit or exclusion will be reduced. If your modified AGI is $192,390 or more, your credit or exclusion will be eliminated.

The original legislation to increase the tax credit was introduced in 1998 by former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, himself an adopted child. At the time, Executive Director of Hope for Children, Joe Woods, concluded, "For middle-income families desiring to adopt, the initial cost of adoption is the number one hurdle. The tax credit often makes the difference."

The new Adoption Tax Credit was signed into law on June 7, 2001, by President George W. Bush as part of the Economic Growth and Relief Act of 2001.

For more information, please visit the IRS website by clicking here.

Are you looking for more information to start your adoption? Please visit Start Your Adoption so you too can learn how to adopt a baby or child.