Adoption is the legal process of creating a family by giving parental rights to adoptive parents. Adoption is permanent, unlike foster care, which is temporary.

All medical expenses associated with your pregnancy and the birth will be 100% covered. In most cases, you will also receive financial support for your living expenses. Living expenses could include rent, utilities, telephone service, food, toiletries, clothing, and transportation. You can receive this support during your pregnancy plus six weeks post-partum. Additionally, we can help you apply for Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). You are also entitled to free counseling throughout the adoption process—both during and after your pregnancy. We want you to be supported, both financially and emotionally, throughout the adoption process.

Nothing. As a birth mother, all of our adoption services are provided to you free of charge.

Florida law protects your right to privacy and confidentiality to a large degree. Because no two adoptions are alike, please contact us to discuss your specific circumstances regarding who, if anyone, must be notified of your adoption plan. Additionally, if you would like our assistance in telling someone about your adoption plan, we are happy to help.

We will work closely with you to find the best possible match for you and the baby. We have many loving and qualified families who are excitedly waiting for the chance to become parents. Each family undergoes a rigorous selection process, including criminal, health, psychological, and financial screenings. Additionally, we interview each family in person to make sure that we are working with the best of the best adoptive families. You can trust that we have done everything we can to make sure that your baby will be safe and secure in the arms of a loving adoptive family.

This is completely up to you. There is technically no such thing as an “open” or “closed” adoption in Florida. That means that we will work with you to determine the level of openness or confidentiality that you desire, and we will find an adoptive family who wants the same things that you do. If you want to meet the adoptive family before the baby is born, then we will arrange that and be present with you and the family at the meeting. If you want pictures or updates on the child throughout the child’s life, then all you have to do is ask!

Only if you want them to be. This is a decision that you and the adoptive family can make together. We can help arrange whatever you decide. You can have whomever you want at the hospital, subject to the hospital’s rules.

In a typical, uncontested adoption, you DO NOT have to go to court. You will have to sign some papers throughout the adoption process in order to legalize the adoption, but you do not have to go to court.

Whatever your situation, we are not judgmental. We will work with you and find a family who is accepting of your circumstances and medical history. We will also help arrange for you to get treatment and prenatal care to help both you and the baby be as healthy as possible.

No. After the baby is discharged from the hospital, the baby will go directly to the adoptive family.

Even if your child is already in foster care, you can still choose private adoption. If your child is in foster care, it is because the state has opened a dependency case on your child due to suspected abuse, abandonment, or neglect. At any time before the dependency court terminates your parental rights, you can choose private adoption for your child through a process called “intervention”. By choosing private adoption, you have the ability to take your child out of foster care and select a permanent home for your child, meet the adoptive parents, and receive photo and letter updates of your child.

It is never too early or too late to make an adoption plan. You can choose private adoption during any stage of your pregnancy. You can even choose private adoption if your child has already been born.

You have the legal right to change your mind at any point prior to legally consenting to the adoption. And we will never pressure you to do something that you do not want or are not ready to do. If you are having second thoughts about your adoption plan, please do not hesitate to call us. We are happy to talk with you as long and as many times as you would like to help you reach your decision. However, please bear in mind that the adoptive family who has been excitedly waiting for the baby will be experiencing a terrible emotional and financial loss. Therefore, please be sure that you are 100% committed to completing the adoption before agreeing to be matched with an adoptive family.

No, you are not required to have your own lawyer, and many birth parents complete the adoption process without hiring their own lawyer. We are the legal representative for the adoptive family. If you would like independent legal advice, we are happy to help arrange that for you.

Absolutely not. Adoption is a loving option and is one of the least selfish decisions you could make for your child. It is a decision based in love. It means that, although you love your child, you recognize that you may not be financially and/or emotionally able to raise and provide for your child in the way you would want. Adoption is a loving way that you can provide for your child—even though you won’t personally be raising your child. Additionally, you will be making an adoptive family’s dreams come true by blessing them with a child and truly completing their family.