Welcoming a child into your family is a big responsibility and emotional experience. A kinship adoption occurs when a child’s parents are unable or unwilling to take care of him or her, and a relative or close friend takes over full-time care of the child. You might...
Once you make the decision to adopt a child, it takes time to go through the process to bring the child home. You will need to put together your adoptions team by choosing an agency and other professionals who will assist you. Then, you begin the actual process of...
Ohio residents who choose to open their hearts and homes to children through adoption deserve to have support and guidance from individuals who understand the law and are prepared to advocate for their rights. Whether they wish to complete a step-parent adoption,...
One of the most generous and loving things a person in Ohio can do is to adopt a child to raise as their own, providing that child with care, love and a healthy, stable home. Many parents who adopt a child start out as the child's foster parents. The following is a...
Ohio residents may be aware that they have certain rights when it comes to avoiding the detrimental effects of discrimination. For example, the color of their skin or the religion they choose to follow may not be used as grounds to deny them a home or a promotion at...
While some Ohio residents give birth to their own biological children, others choose to expand their families through the adoption process. As our readers may know, adoptions can be open or closed, domestic or international, and can involve many different...
Adopting a child is an emotional process that can fill the lives of Ohio parents with love and happiness. It is also, however, a legal process that is complex and full of mandates and requirements. Although many successful adoptions take place each year throughout the...
Not long ago a national news program offered the heartwarming story of a little girl asking her stepfather to adopt her. In a pretty dress and with a handmade sign, she asked the man who had been in her life since her infancy if he would officially make her his...
Families grow through the birth of infants and the adoption of children. While some individuals seek to adopt children from here in the United States, others find that their children are living in countries far and wide. International adoption is an option for Ohio...
The decision to adopt a child is one of the biggest that prospective parents will ever make. In Ohio, there are several ways that individuals can pursue adoptions. They can work with the state or state-sanctioned agencies to find children in need of adoptive...