Prospective adoptive parents are carefully screened and are required to give a great deal of information about themselves.  All waiting families must meet the State home study requirements as well as ABBA's application requirements before adopting.  They are visited in their home several times by a social worker and must provide personal, professional, and pastoral references.  ABBA only works with Christian adoptive couples who are actively involved with their church.  Adoptive couples must be able to demonstrate that they are emotionally and financially stable as well as physically healthy.  By the time ABBA has approved an adoptive couple, they are known very well and ABBA feels confident they will make good parents.  Birth Mothers can feel assured that a safe, warm, secure, and loving Christian home will be provided for their child.

ABBA Adoption also provides the following services to the Birth Mother in regards to the Adoptive Couple:

Our staff will provide birth mothers with profiles of waiting families to choose from and will assist birth mothers when needed, with the selection of a family during the matching process.

We will organize and support the birth mother and the adoptive parents during conference conference calls, meeting with each other, doctor's visits, hosptial time, and all other types of contact with each other.

ABBA Adoption will educate birth mothers on their options relating to the types of adoptions

There are several different levels of opennes. ABBA Adoption will help you make an adoption plan based on your preference level of openness.

1. CONFIDENTIAL: The birth parents and the adoptive parents never know eachother.  Adoptive parents are given background information about you and the birth father that they would need to help them take care of the child, such as medical information, and appropriate information needed to finalize the adoption.
2. OPEN: The birth parents and the adoptive parents know something about eachother.  There are several different levels of openness.  ABBA Adoption will help you make an adoption plan based on your preference level of opennness.

• Least Open: You will read about several possible adoptive families and pick the one that sounds best for your baby.  You will not know each other's names.
• More Open:  You and the possible adoptive family will speak on the telephone and exchange first names.
• Even More Open: You can meet the possible adoptive family. Your Adoption Coordinator or Lisenced Social Worker will arrange the meeting at the agency or a neutral place (such as a resteraunt, play ground if you have other children, ect.). 
• Most Open:  You and the adoptive parents share your full names, addresses, and telephone numbers. You stay in contact with the family and your child over the years by visiting, calling, or writing each other.

Regardless of the level of openness you desire, ABBA Adoption will facilitate pictures of your child along with updates to be sent to the agency. Then, the pictures will either be sent to you or, if you are not ready for them, they will be held at the agency in case you would want to receive them in the future.