Section #1: Deciding if Adoption is the Right Choice

As a professional, you know your clients best in terms of their wellbeing, both physically and emotionally. Deciding if adoption is the right choice for them rests on a variety of factors, including their reason for adoption. 

It is important to be cautious that families are not grieving recent miscarriage, infertility diagnosis or loss of a child when they start the adoption process.

Some questions to ask prospective adoptive families include:

• When you think about adopting a child, how do you feel?
• Do you feel you have appropriately grieved the loss of having biological children?
• Do you think you could love a child not genetically related to you?
• Are you ready for a roller coaster ride and feeling out of control of the adoption process?
• When you think about adoption do you feel hopeful?

The purpose isn't to lead them to one decision or another. The purpose is to help them explore their feelings and motivations as they consider adoption as a way to build their family.