What are the main differences between an adoption agency and a facilitator?
As an adoption facilitator, Lifetime typically offers more services to birthmothers than adoption agencies because we can offer a wide array of options, including phone, peer, or in-person counseling, assistance with basics like towels, sheets, and clothing (both maternity clothes and post-pregnancy outfits), and an active role in their adoption including the opportunity to choose the family, level of contact, and establishing a hospital plan – most importantly having the family there to take the baby home. In fact, many birthmothers choose an adoption facilitator because they feel more comfortable with their choices and options. In an agency adoption, the birthmother will relinquish her parental rights directly to the adoption agency, who ultimately will place the baby with an adoptive family of the agency’s choosing. With Lifetime, the birthmother will relinquish her rights directly to you, the adoptive family. Birthmothers are far more comfortable with this choice, and many are choo
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- What are the main differences between an adoption agency and a facilitator?
