Private Adoption In Virginia

Crown Oak Press
Private adoption,more accurately called “parental placement adoption,” is the process where a birth mother decides for herself what family she would like to place her child with. This has become the most common form of adoption in Virginia. Based upon many years of counseling prospective adoptive parents, the author explains step by step how to pursue parental placement adoption in Virginia. Topics include an explanation of the legal process, how to search for a birth mother, how to relate to her once she has been identified, how to deal with birth fathers, and how to prepare an adoptive family profile.