Agency Placements.
This occurs when the child to be adopted has been received by the adopting parents from an adoption agency approved by the State. Click here for a list of approved New Jersey adoption agencies.
The prospective adoptive parents must meet with a caseworker from the agency and have a pre-placement report (homestudy) performed. The parents must provide social history, medical history, financial status and other information. Once the adoptive parents are approved, the agency matches a child with them.
Private Placements. This is when the child
to be adopted was placed with the adopting parents privately by the biological parents without the assistance of an agency. The prospective adoptive parents must still retain an agency and meet with a caseworker from the agency to have a homestudy performed. The adoptive parents must provide social history, medical history, financial status and other information.
International Adoptions and Re-Adoptions. In this situation the child was placed and often adopted outside of the United States and is adopted or re-adopted in the United States. In some countries, the adoptive parent(s) adopt the child in the foreign country. Upon their return to the United States, the child must be re-adopted in order to obtain a United States birth certificate. In other countries, the child is placed in the adoptive parent's care and the adoption is finalized in the United States.
Click here for information about foreign adoptions.
There are a number of different agencies throughout the United States which place babies and older children from foreign countries with adoptive parents in the United States. Click here for a list of adoption agencies that handle foreign adoptions. Each agency has its own requirements. For instance, many require that the adoptive parents be under the age of 40.
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