Qualifications to Adopt

Adoption Advocates works with potential adoptive parents that meet the following qualifications to adopt a baby:

  • Two-year minimum marriage requirement
  • Must be emotionally and financially stable
  • Flexible about such issues as ethnicity and health history
  • Comfortable with open adoption
  • Unable to have biological children due to infertility or high-risk hereditary concerns. Exceptions are made for same-sex couples and single parents.

Applicants will be screened through an approval process that includes a background check, interview and HOME STUDY.

Adoption Advocates believes in building families of all types, regardless of ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation. We work with same-sex couples and single parents in addition to married heterosexual couples.

Full-Service Adoption Fees

The total adoption agency cost to adopt is $47,500. For full information on fees including the fee schedule, please request an information packet.

Adoption Advocates charges a comprehensive fee for matching and placement of a child in your home. There are no surprise costs. The agency covers all expectant parent expenses. If you have a “failed” match, you are not charged additional fees for your next match.

Our payment schedule is based off low up-front costs, allowing families the flexibility to work with more than one agency. For families who choose to work exclusively with Adoption Advocates, an alternate schedule to spread out payments is available.

Services covered under the comprehensive fee:

  • Assistance in preparing profile and introduction letter

  • Receipt and review of all required documents and home study

  • Expectant parent counseling

  • Expectant parent maternity expenses: rent, groceries, utilities, clothing, transportation

  • Medical expenses for both mother and baby up to $7500

  • Termination of expectant parents’ rights: attorney’s fees and court costs

  • Staff travel: transportation, meals and hotel if required

  • Advertising throughout Texas of services for expectant parents

  • 24-hour a day intake and screening of expectant parents

  • Assessment and monitoring of expectant parent’s needs and concerns

  • Liaison with expectant parent’s doctor and hospital social worker and facilitation of the hospital experience

  • Facilitating relinquishment and placement

Services not covered under the comprehensive fee:

  • Home study and post-placement supervision (5 post-placement visits required by the State of Texas)

  • Adoptive Parent Training

  • Cradle Care (Interim Care)

  • Legal Finalization of Adoption

  • ICPC Facilitation (for out-of-state families)

  • DNA testing

  • Medical expenses for both mother and baby in excess of $7500

  • Adoptive parent travel

  • Legal costs associated with contested terminations

YOUR FIRST STEP

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