Eligibility Requirements for Adoptive Families
 ADOPTION PROGRAM STATEMENT-Part 2

Adoptaid desires that any healthy and well-adjusted Michigan residents who wish to adopt apply at this agency.  It is believed that in order to meet the wide range of needs that children have, there must be a range of family types available to these children. Any family could be a desirable adoptive family if they are able to lovingly and freely embrace the adoptive child, his birthfamily, his culture, his self, and the difficult behaviors that the child may have. Inability to pay for services shall not make a family ineligible to adopt and waivers will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

One other thing: The birthparents who chose to work with us often want an ongoing relationship with the adoptive family.  We really need families who will provide ongoing love, support and contact to their child's birthparents.  This may seem like a tall order, but if you have a big heart and an open mind you would likely see the value in that arrangement!  EVERYONE benefits and children thrive in such open arrangements. 

The adoptive evaluation will include but is not limited to exploring the following topics: motivation to adopt, infertility, criminal activity and convictions, emotional stability, compatibility between joint applicants, adjustment of other children, attitudes toward adoption, and parenting ideals. See "Home Study Services"

Applicants with a child abuse history as a perpetrator, or a current substance use problem shall not be eligible for adoption. This list of excluded backgrounds is not exhaustive.

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