What are the duties and responsibilities of an adoption facilitator?
The most common duty or responsibility of an adoption facilitator is to match birth parents with adoptive parents and vice versa. Adoption facilitators provide adoption and placement matching, in essence. What are the fees for using an adoption facilitator? This is where the variances occur. In most states, adoption facilitators don’t charge a fee at all because the majority of states don’t allow it. A lack of accepted certification could be one reason for that, as well as a lack of regulation by the state for adoption facilitators. However, not all states disallow adoption facilitators from charging fees. Fifteen states actually allow adoption facilitators to charge for their services. But this is only true if the services and the adoption facilitators meet certain state-specific criterion. How can an adoption facilitator be a detriment? Using an adoption facilitator isn’t right for every person. It is completely dependent of the individual case or situation. However, for some people,
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