Crafting the Perfect Profile: Tips for Adoptive Parents
Pursuing adoption in the US requires prospective adoptive parents to complete extensive paperwork to ensure they can provide a safe and loving home for the baby. In addition to home study, your agency or attorney will ask you to prepare an adoptive parent profile. You and your agency use this profile as a tool to help prospective birth moms get to know you.
If you aren’t mindful, sharing your story with an expectant mother in a profile book can feel like a sales pitch. Think of this parent profile book as a valuable tool to help a pregnant woman considering adoption make the proper connection as she searches for adoptive parents for her baby.
Craft an adoptive parent profile that is inviting and honest to help an expectant mother understand who you are and your family. There are a few essential things to know about what to include – and what not to – to help a pregnant woman connect with you.
What do you want your profile to “say”?
As an adoptive family, you have a story: how you got here, what you have been doing, and where you want to go. Why are you in the adoption process? The goal of an adoption profile is not to connect with every expectant parent out there but to connect with the right one for you. Through your profile, you should show the birthmother how you are the best match for her child.
How will a birthmother remember you?
Being yourself is the most important thing to remember while beginning your profile. Be honest and genuine about who you are and what you value.
Why are you here?
Expectant/birth mothers are often curious about why prospective families want to adopt in the first place. They usually wish to place their child with a family who cannot have a child. In this way, they feel that they are giving this child the best opportunity in life and doing something good for a family that cannot have a biological child.
Sharing your journey to adoption with the expectant parents is a vital part of this process, but it is essential to remain positive as you tell your story. You may mention a struggle with infertility and the positive lessons you have learned.
Include some candid
Using pictures in your adoption profile is a great way of engaging expectant parents visually. Consider what photos say “you” the most. A photo of your immediate family smiling makes a great cover photo for your album. Your profile should be colorful, active, funny, and show love.
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