Child Adoption: Costs, Legal Records & Finder's Guide

Adoption processes vary significantly, with options ranging from private arrangements to unsealing closed records. Prospective parents should evaluate the costs and legal requirements, including rules for specific backgrounds.

Reasons Parents Give Their Babies Up for Adoption

Published Jun,13 2017 | By Flora Richards-Gustafson

When a woman places her baby up for adoption, she isn’t making the choice to give up. Instead, she’s choosing a life for her child, according to the American Adoptions website. The decision for a mother or birth parents to place a baby up for adoption isn’t always simple.

Flora Richards-Gustafson has been writing professionally since 2003. She creates copy for websites, marketing materials and printed publications. Richards-Gustafson specializes in SEO and writing about small-business strategies, health and beauty, interior design, emergency preparedness and education. Richards-Gustafson received a Bachelor of Arts from George Fox University in 2003 and was recognized by Cambridge's "Who's Who" in 2009 as a leading woman entrepreneur.