Benefits of Choosing Adoption in Colorado
By Jaclyn Prasa
It can be a shock to find out about your unplanned pregnancy. If you know that you are not yet ready to parent your child, then adoption is a wonderful option to consider. First, adoption is a choice made out of love. It’s a way to give your child all that you can by giving them life and choosing another family to raise them. Here are some other benefits offered by local adoption agencies in Colorado and Christian adoption agencies.
If you need adoption help now, please call or text us at 303-670-4673 (HOPE) or visit us at Adoption Choices of Colorado.
Choosing Adoption the Right Type of Adoption for Your Baby
1. Adoption allows for more opportunities for your child
It is likely that if you are thinking about adoption, then it might be because you are not financially stable enough to provide for and raise your child. Parenting can be very expensive. In 2022, with rising inflation, it is now estimated that it costs over $300,000 to raise a child to the age of 17. That’s not even to the age of legal adulthood!
Adoptive families are carefully screened before they are approved to adopt your child. Proof of income ensures that they are able to provide for everyone in their household at the base level and more. Additionally, it is statistically shown that adoptive parents tend to have higher incomes than parents who do not adopt. Adopted children are less likely to live below the poverty line. In addition to financial security, adoptive families have been planning on adoption for quite some time. Therefore, they are financially and emotionally ready to raise a child.
2. Adoption allows you to keep contact with your child
The adoption process consists of choosing one kind of adoption: open, semi-open, or closed. Depending on your unique situation, you might choose an open adoption which will allow you to choose the adoptive family and keep direct contact with that family. You will also then be able to arrange contact with your child post-placement. This can vary, but you will very well be able to maintain a relationship with your child. Additionally, an open adoption benefits your child. Adoptees wish to know their birth parents. They wish to know where they came from. This brings them a grander sense of support and understanding of identity.
3. You may be supported with financial assistance
Adoption is a free process. When you contact Adoption Choices of Colorado, you will create an adoption plan. In the plan, you may qualify for financial assistance, which can help in certain aspects like paying rent or utility bills. This is a life-altering experience you are going through. Caring for your pregnancy and then giving up your child for adoption is emotionally challenging. Therefore, we wish to assist you as much as we can. Financial help is one simple way to alleviate some of your burdens. We also assist with medical care, safe housing, and emotional support. It is important to us that you feel supported. And with our help, we hope to bring you closer to healing.
4. You can feel at peace with your decision and move on with your life.
Adoption Choices of Colorado understands how difficult of a decision it is to place your child up for adoption. While you make a hard decision out of love for your child, you are then able to freely move on with your life however you wish. If you want to further your education or career, you can do so with peace of mind as you know that your child is being well-cared for.
5. The adoptive family is granted their dream of raising a child.
The wait time for adoptive families to adopt a child can be anywhere from 6 months to several years. But that does not include the work prior to acceptance into the local adoption agency. Nor does it include the private conversations and desires before finding Adoption Choices of Colorado. Most commonly, adoptive families adopt due to infertility or pregnancy complications. They are unable to conceive a child of their own. This can be a sorrowful realization. Adoption is their hope and salvation. By choosing adoption for your baby, you are choosing an adoptive family to gratefully and lovingly raise your child as their own.
6. Adoptees are emotionally strong and physically healthy.
Adoptees are typically healthy, with 85% of adopted children’s health classified as “excellent.” Additionally, 88% of adopted children aged 6 and up show positive social behavior. While more opportunities for your child were brushed upon above, it does seem that adoptees are typically raised in an environment with more parental attention. Adopted children are more likely to be read to or sung to each night. This promotes a nurtured foundation that raises children to feel more self-assured and confident in themselves. Adoptees have shown more interest and likelihood in the engagement of extracurricular activities. Additionally, the majority of adoptees are in some type of open adoption. This may allow them to know and feel loved by both their adoptive family and birth family.
Is Adoption Right for You and Your Baby?
Adoption may be the next best thing if you cannot parent your child yourself. You can determine the right family who raises your baby. You can choose a family that most resonates with your values if you so desire. Also, adopted children do not have much of a disadvantage when everyone in the situation wants what’s best for them: a supportive and loving home. The most important factor when determining your options for your child is deciding on the most loving option. A Colorado adoption is certainly a loving and hopeful choice.
If you have any more questions or concerns, do not hesitate to call your adoption agency in Denver. Adoption in Colorado is here to help you every step of the way.
If you are facing an unplanned pregnancy and want to learn more about your adoption options, contact Adoption Choices of Colorado by email, phone, or text: Email Us, Text us: 720-371-1099, Call us: 303-670-4673 (HOPE). If you are hoping to adopt, please contact us here.
Stephanie joined the Adoption Choices family in 2014 as the Child Placement Supervisor. Her love for adoption began in first grade when she made friends with twins adopted from Vietnam. Her heart grew strong over the years for adopted children and ultimately led her to graduate school where she continued her focus to her dream of working in the adoption field. Stephanie earned a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Denver in 2001. Over the past 15 years, Stephanie has worked as a pregnancy counselor and as an adoptive parent counselor for foster care, international adoption and domestic adoption, writing hundreds of home studies for families, and helping build their forever families. Stephanie is married and has three boys ages 12, 9, and 5. Together with her family she enjoys riding bike, playing games, watching her three sons compete in their various sporting and musical activities and go on vacations.
Christy Ikeler, is our Executive Director and Birth Parent Director. Christy has been with Adoption Choices Team for 18 years, since opening the doors in 2002! Christy has a true passion for what she does and her true love is working with and helping each birth parent. Whether she is up all night on the phone talking with them, taking them to doctors appointments, out for their favorite treat, providing counseling or at the hospital during labor and delivery, Christy is very involved every step of the way. She has a contagious laugh and a spunky personality that our birth moms all can bond with and relate to. As an adoptive parent herself, adoption holds a very special place in her heart and she can relate on every level with both birth parents and adoptive parents. In her free time Christy loves spending time with her daughter, gardening, baking and taking vacations with her family. Christy is an excellent leader for our team at Adoption Choices and is truly one of a kind!! As Executive Director, Christy spends time with the staff, birth parents and adoptive families in order to ensure that the agency is running smoothly. She has placed a huge emphasis on community outreach and programs for birth parents. Christy loves the opportunity to lead the agency into a brighter future.
Ms. Mackenzie has built a successful counseling career over the past 20 years, supporting mothers and families, people of all ages and genders, students, community professionals and fellow clinicians. Liv values a diverse professional focus, including the entrepreneurial life of a sole proprietor, the evaluative process of certifying foster/adoptive homes, the insightful and mindful one-on-one one work with enthusiastic clients, and serving as an advocate for underserved populations. Liv is a Licensed Professional Counselor and holds a BA in Pre-Law and Economics from American University, an MA in Counseling from Adams University and a certificate in Human Resource Management from Villanova University. Away from work you will find Liv spending time in nature, biking to the farmer’s market and adventuring with her family.
Catherine A. Madsen, joined the Adoption Choices family as legal counsel in 2013. Catherine is responsible for providing legal guidance to the Agency, training and updating staff on developments in adoption law and legislation, and program development. Catherine
Virginia Frank is an adoption attorney accredited since 1991 with the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. Ms. Frank is a leader in the field of private adoption and has completed over 4,000 adoptions in her career. Ms. Frank has a law degree from Oklahoma City University and a BA in both Political Science and Communications from the University of Oklahoma.
Cassidie has been with Adoption Choices since 2015, she has her bachelors in Interdisciplinary Affairs with concentrations in both Sociology and Business Management. Cassidie has additional training in Victim Advocacy, foster care and has been working in women’s services for over 10 years. Cassidie has always had a heart for adoption and it was her career dream to work in adoption. She started off doing volunteer work for advocacy programs, adoption organizations and worked in High Risk Maternal Fetal Medicine through the University of Colorado Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Colorado. Cassidie is also blessed to have personally experienced an adoption of her own in 2012, completing her family of five! Cassidie loves what she does as a case worker from initial phone calls, meetings, doctor appointments, interaction with the adoptive families to delivery and counseling. Cassidie has a passion for those in need and strives to help make a difference in the lives of the people she meets. She is a firm believer in being kind, compassionate and open minded in all situations. “Unless you’ve walked in their shoes, there’s no place for judgment. A kind word or compliment can go a long way!” The bittersweet moments in adoption reminds Cassidie each and every time, why she loves what she does!