Adoption agencies are facilitators, who try to match prospective adoptive parents to an eligible child backed by complete powers from the natural parents to arrange for adoption. Parents looking for adoption can turn to an adoption agency. Both public and private agencies are licensed under the adoption laws of the concerned jurisdiction by appropriate authorities for facilitating adoptions.
State runs the public adoption agencies, since the Government is interested to place orphaned children with parents seeking to adopt. Private adoption agencies also function under state regulation and supervision.
In case where natural parents involve an agency, they have to relinquish their rights over the child to the concerned agency with full powers to arrange for adoption, by the execution of a formal surrender agreement. Birth parents have to leave with agency the selection of appropriate adoptive parents. In order to evaluate the suitability of prospective adoptive parents, adoption agencies use rigorous tests in the best interests of the child. The concerned adoption agency places the adoptee child with the adoptive parents, only when the biological parents have foregone all their claims over the child.
Adoption agencies maintain dossiers of information on the prospective adoptive parents for different parameters of suitability like background check report, home study review report by a licensed social worker, financial information and so on.
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