How do foreign adoption agencies prepare prospective adoptive parents?
Most adoption applicants learn about adoption agencies through families who have adopted, through their own family, friends at works, in church, in the community or through the internet. The prospective adoptive applicant touches base with the identified adoption agency for their orientation/counseling on the requirements to be adoptive parents. Prospective Adoptive Parents (PAPs) must attend a series of meetings or sessions that enable them to determine and discern if adoption can be their choice of building their family especially for childless couples where inevitably, the issue of infertility must be resolved. Once the choice is made, discerning from which country they would like to adopt requires another series of learning sessions. Once a formal adoption application for the Philippine Inter-Country Adoption Program is approved by the adoption agency and endorsed to the ICAB, the PAPs are walked through the different stages of the adoption process from the time of application up t
