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[quote=Anonymous]Understand the difference between an adoption facilitator and an agency and whether your state allows the use of the former. A facilitator acts like a referral service finding out situations from many agencies.

If you are white or Black , will you consider adopting a child who is Black? Bi-racial?  This will be one of the first questions you are asked by an agency.

What medical/health situations are you open to considering? If a pregnant woman did drugs during pregnancy either before she found out she was pregnant or after or both are you ok with that? And if so, what kind of drugs are you comfortable with (different drugs have different effects)? What about mental health concerns?

Understand what open adoption is and consider what level of openness you might be comfortable with.

Ask the agency for a break down of fees. Ask their policy on paying adoptive parents paying birth mother expenses.  Ask if there is a failed match, will the fees you paid be lost or applied to the next match.

In what months of pregnancy does the agency look to match up pregnant women with families?  Later on in the pregnancy is better than early on.

Does the agency allow pregnant women to view all the family profiles they agency has available or does the agency first screen the profiles and then present a selected few to pregnant women?

As an FYI  -some adoption lingo:  
make an adoption plan or place for adoption - not give away or give up

before placement - a pregnant women who is making an adoption plan is not a birth mother. She hasn't given birth yet and has not placed a child.

after placement - various terms are used  Birth Mother,  biological mother, first mother,  not natural or real mother.

PAPs - pre adoptive parents

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