Blog About Adoption
Welcome to Lifetime Adoption’s website blog about adoption. Lifetime Adoption is a domestic adoption agency with over 35 years of experience creating families through infant adoption. We specialize in domestic adoption, which generally involves adopting a newborn or child up to six. As one of the top adoption agencies in America, we’ve made the dreams of parenthood come true for thousands of couples across the nation.
Our founder, Mardie Caldwell, established Lifetime and our adoption website after experiencing the joy of parenthood through adoption. Caldwell designed Lifetime’s successful adoption program to be what she needed when adopting her son. Over 35 years later, her adoption program guides families through each step of the way, educating and preparing hopeful adoptive parents for their Lifetime Adoption. Caldwell is also an adoption author; she has written six books and created this blog about adoption.
Open adoption is the most common type of domestic adoption today. In a modern open adoption, the birth parents select the adoptive parents for their baby. They view profiles and talk with adoptive couples before making their choice. After the adoption placement, there is usually some form of contact, from sharing pictures and supplying updates on the child to in-person visits once a year. Both the birth parents and the adoptive parents come to an agreement about what the post-adoption contact will be. You can learn much more about what open adoption looks like by browsing our adoption website.
After deciding that they’d like to expand their family through adoption, most hopeful adoptive parents start prioritizing financial planning, researching adoption agencies, and reading up on open adoption. Lifetime’s blog about adoption covers articles on the adoption process, open adoption, parenting, financial, transracial adoption, and more.
Adoption can give you the family you’ve been praying for. It can be the most incredible journey and give you the greatest of blessings: a child of your own. As a hopeful adoptive parent, you’re able to provide a child with a happy, loving home. Read our adoptive families blog about adoption and get info on birth parents, what to expect in open adoption, adoption costs, and how to enjoy your adoption journey.
Lifetime can help you successfully adopt a baby or child, completing an Adoption for a Lifetime! To start with domestic adoption, you can complete our free application on our adoption website today. If you have questions, give us a call at 727-493-0933 and speak with one of Lifetime’s adoption professionals.
Contact With Birth Parents After Adoption
Modern open adoption has many benefits for everyone in the adoption triad. For example, prior to the adoption, adoptive and birth parents can work together to decide how much contact they will have in the future after the adoption is complete. Adoptive families...
Embracing Adoption: A Complete Guide for Military Families
Is adoption for military families possible? How is the process handled if you're currently stationed overseas? Military life is not an obstacle to adoption, and Lifetime Adoption is proud to help military couples adopt. Since our inception in 1986, we've helped...
How the Open Adoption Agreement Benefits Everyone
Finally, the day you've been waiting for has arrived: it's time to bring home your newly adopted baby! The days of searching and waiting are over, and it's time to begin a new season of life as a parent. Your entire family wants to meet this little one, and this is...
Can Adoptive Parents Change Their Minds?
Fernando and Angela Martin had struggled with infertility since they first decided to grow their family. They came to our adoption center two years ago to explore their options, but they were not quite ready to pursue adoption. Now, several failed infertility...
Your Guide to the Ohio Adoption Grant Program
At Lifetime, we understand that the expenses of adoption can be a barrier for many couples in Ohio who are called to provide a loving home for a child in need. We believe that financial constraints should not prevent these couples from adopting. Our goal is to...
How to Choose an Adoption Agency
Choosing an adoption agency to work alongside you is a pivotal step in your adoption journey. It is one of the first and most important decisions you'll make in your adoption journey, and it can feel overwhelming and stressful, given its value.ย The decision you make...