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.
Adoption Home Study Tips
For many hopeful adoptive parents, home studies are the most nerve-wracking and time-consuming part of the adoption process. They wonder, "Will our home be acceptable? What will they think about our approach to parenting? What about my past?" Join Lifetime as we...
How to Encourage Successful Open Adoption Stories
When most people think of adoption, they imagine adoptions of the past when closed adoption was the norm. Society's views on adoption have evolved over the years, and now most private or independent adoptions are often successful open adoption stories. In fact, only...
My Infertility Story by Mardie Caldwell
My infertility story was even more tragic because of my childhood. As the eldest of five children, I grew up with three brothers and one sister. Starting when I was young, I loved to help my mom out in caring for them. Watching children felt natural to me, and I knew...
Adoption Video from a Birth Mom to Her Baby Has Gone Viral!
In an emotional adoption video that's since gone viral, birth mother Hannah explains to her newly-born son that she'll always love him. Both People Magazine and The Today Show, have picked up this story of a loving birth mother with a special...
How Do We Know When To Do IVF or Adoption?
Recently on Lifetime Adoption's Facebook page, we asked our followers about IVF or adoption. More specifically, we asked what they'd tell the hopeful parents who asked this question: "We have had fertility problems and were just referred to another specialist. We...
What is Domestic Adoption?
As you begin to look into adoption, you may have questions about the benefits of domestic adoption. Your questions may arise closely after one of your most significant choices: adopting within the U.S. or internationally. A common misunderstanding is that there are no...
