How do birth parents and adoptive parents choose one another?
During the adoption study process, you will prepare a three-part profile. This profile includes a ‘Dear Birth Parent’ letter in which you can express yourselves more personally to potential birth parents. It also includes a Home Summary which is a synopsis of your family including topics such as hobbies and interests, and views on discipline and education. The third piece of the profile is the picture pages. Families create a minimum of three or a maximum of ten back-to-back picture pages. These picture pages should represent you as a family, your interests and hobbies, your extended family and friends, pictures of your home, vacations or holiday traditions, etc. Your adoption social worker will be in close communication with you regarding the birth parents to which you are open to being shown. Based on the profiles they are shown, prospective birth parents choose a family for their child. Adoptive families are often given the opportunity to meet with the birth parents once they are ch
