3 Responses to “What Different Types Of Adoption Are There?”

1. AnnaBell Says:
   February 1st, 2010 at 11:27 AM

   Private Adoption:
   These adoptions are NOT done through the state, they are facilitated by agencies or lawyers. They are generally newborn adoptions. The adoptive parents pay fees to the lawyer or agency. The infant is usually placed with the adoptive parents at birth. The expectant mother or couple chooses an individual or couple to raise her child, and relinquishes custody after birth.
   These adoptions can vary as far as open, closed, etc. Open is really a spectrum. Open refers to contact with the natural family and can be anything from a letter and photo once in a while to almost co-parenting.
   A closed adoption refers to an adoption where no contact is made between the adoptive family and the natural family during the child’s childhood.
   International Adoption falls under the purvue of Private Adoption also, since they are facilitated by the private sector: agencies/lawyers. The main difference is that the children are adopted from orphanages or foster homes in other countries.
   Public Adoption, or foster care adoption, is adoption via the state. The children in this system, generally speaking of course, have been apprehended from their natural family due to abuse, neglect, etc. These children are placed in foster care in the hopes of reuniting them with their natural families, but if that cannot happen, the child can be placed in an adoptive home, or adopted by the current foster parents. These children are generally older by the time they become available for adoption (over 5), but again, not always.
   Kinship Adoptions are when a child is adopted by family, whether through social services/the public system, or privately, between the natural mother and the family member. Social services generally attempts to place children with family, rather than foster care, if it is safe to do so.
   Step-family adoption is when a step-parent adopts a child.

2. Scarol Says:
   February 1st, 2010 at 1:51 PM

   There are three that I know of.
   There is a private adoption where you find a family and just give them the kid after the birth. No questions asked.
   There’s a formal adoption where you give your child to the state as soon as they’re born and are given a name.
   and then there’s the type of adoption where the state sees you as an unfit parent and throws your kid into foster care where they can be adopted at anytime by someone else.

3. im a girl Says:
   February 1st, 2010 at 3:50 PM

   open- birth and adoptive parents know each other and keep contact through the childs life
   closed-different sets of parents never meet and birth mother doesnt know who her child goes to

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