By Ava Adams Adopting a newborn can be one of the most exciting and nerve-wracking times of your life. There's so much stress involved, from interviews, to travel, to waiting, and more. Everything can start to feel overwhelming.  One of the best ways to ease your...

One of the final steps of the adoption process is receiving and vetting adoption situations from your agencies or attorneys. This happens after you complete home study, design your adoption profile, and find agencies to work with. Vetting adoption situations is what...

A home study is the process that will legally approve you to be able to adopt and is required for every adoption. It’s the process that will legally approve you to be able to adopt. The home study is a basic overview of your life—including criminal background checks,...

One of the things you are going to be asked over and over again at different points throughout your adoption journey is, “What is your criteria? What are you open to in an adoption situation?” What race, what gender, what substance exposures, what mental...