How can the Americans Adopting Orphans program work for my family?
With Americans Adopting Orphans you design the adoption program that is right for your family. You can choose how much of the routine paperwork and adoption preparation you do for yourself, and how much is done by your adoption agency. In doing this you retain a lot of personal control over the process. This can affect the pace of your adoption. Parent initiated adoption using our Technical Review and Instruction Pack levels of services can be faster than adoption through a traditional agency. While an agency must divide its time among many adoptive families, parent-initiated adoption allows you to take control of your own adoption and devote all of your attention to the needs of your family. In the case of our parent initiated adoption we found that there was also a great deal of personal satisfaction and feeling of accomplishment in doing the work ourselves. A parent initiated adoption can also be significantly less expensive than a traditional agency adoption. By working on your own
