Bring your child home as soon as possible.
When all you want is to be a parent, having to wait years to adopt can seem like a lifetime. Obtaining a safe and legal adoption can be very tedious and time-consuming -- not to mention very costly. Depending on whether the adoption is domestic or international, there are a few ways to speed up an adoption and cut down your wait-time from years to possibly months.
Instructions
Domestic Adoption
1. Examine your financial situation. Ask yourself how much you're willing to spend to adopt a child as soon as possible and determine your maximum allowable expenditures. This will include the cost of adoption, any mother's fees, lawyer fees, travel and lodging necessary.
2. Determine whether you must have a newborn. If the answer is no, you will be able to adopt a child in foster care relatively quickly. Conduct thorough research before proceeding with an adoption of an older child; there are definitive risks to be considered. The child may have emotional issues and be difficult to integrate into your family at first. If you're passionate about rescuing a child, though, this could be a very rewarding experience.
3. Hire an adoption lawyer if you are set on adopting a newborn. For approximately $50,000 plus mother's fees, at the time of publication, an adoption lawyer will put you in the best position to adopt a newborn baby. The lawyer will set up arrangements with a domestically-located pregnant woman and you may be able to meet her prior to her delivery.
4. Contact an adoption facilitator. They are similar to adoption lawyers except they usually don't charge a fee, but the pregnant women they set you up with may be prison inmates. This should be used as a last resort for a quick adoption when all other means have been exhausted as the facilitator simply matches you with a birth mother and basically leaves the rest up to you.
International Adoption
5. Research what countries have the shortest and easiest international adoption plans. At the date of publication, there are 75 countries that are part of the Hague Adoption Convention, a government regulated system that oversees safe and legal adoptions from international countries within the convention. Adopting from outside of these countries is riskier and may be more difficult.
6. Make a list of the countries you're willing to adopt from in order of priority. Take into consideration that it may be difficult to navigate adoption agencies without a translator and you may have to stay in your country of choice for a few weeks while the adoption is being processed.
7. Consult an adoption lawyer that specializes in international adoption to facilitate communications and set you up with the safest and quickest adoption.
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