Catholic Charities Adoption
A loving option...
Adoption is a life-giving, loving option for the future of your unborn baby. Coping with an unintended pregnancy begins with knowing your options and finding support as you face difficult decisions.
Across the country, Catholic Charities agencies provide pregnancy counseling and adoption services for individuals and families regardless of their religious, social, or economic backgrounds.
How can we help?
The Web site is maintained by Catholic Charities USA, the National Office for over 1,700 local Catholic Charities agencies nationwide. For more information about Catholic Charities USA, visit our Web site at http://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org.
CRISIS IN HAITI
- Americans have opened their hearts to children who are affected by this devastating earthquake. But before a child can be legally taken to the United States for adoption, the Governments of both Haiti and the United States must determine if the child is an orphan. It can be extremely difficult during the aftermath of a natural disaster to ascertain whether children who appear to be orphans are truly eligible for adoption. Efforts to reunite children with close relatives or extended family should be given priority.
- At this time, the U.S. Government is focused on expediting the documentation of children who had been matched with American parents rather than identified for adoption by U.S. parents. The Department of Homeland Security encourages U.S. citizens with pending adoption cases in Haiti to send detailed information about their cases to HaitianAdoptions@dhs.gov.
- But there are many ways in which U.S. citizens can help the children of Haiti now. One website with information about how to do this is the White House site: http://www.whitehouse.gov/HaitiEarthquake
- American citizens can learn about how to adopt a child from another country, and how to bring that child to live with them in the United States, from the Web site: http://adoption.State.gov. It has information on the inter-country adoption process and flyers that provide country specific adoption procedures. Catholic Charities will update this site as new information becomes available.
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