Adopt an Infant Born in the US
Welcome to the Domestic Infant Program at Adoptions Together. We hope to help you realize your dream of adopting a newborn. The Domestic program provides counseling and legal services to birth parents considering adoption, ongoing education, training and support for adopting parents, and advocacy for children who need adoptive homes. We welcome all children regardless of age, race, disability or medical condition and place more than 50 infants into permanent homes every year.
We encourage you to watch a 10-minute online presentation about our domestic infant program or attend an agency information meeting to meet agency staff and learn about the legal and social work we practice and our philosophy of infant adoption and ongoing services to birth and adoptive parents. We work to match birth and adoptive parents along many lines, but most importantly to create a level of openness and trust that is comfortable and good for all. Many of us are adoptive parents and believe adoption is a wonderful way to build a family! Please RSVP for the information meetings so that we may send you information ahead of time.
Adoptions Together welcomes DC families to our domestic infant placement services. Legislation ensuring fee equity with Maryland and Virginia residents is in effect as of January 1, 2010. Please click here for information about our comprehensive adoption services and fees.
 Parental Requirements for Domestic Adoption
The minimum age to adopt through this program is 25 years of age. If you are adopting as a married or committed couple, you should be married or partnered one year or more by the time you enter the program. If you are single, you should be 45 years of age or younger. If you are married or partnered, one member of a couple is required to be 45 or younger at the time of application. We prefer the older member to be no older than 50; and in the event you are 50 we will evaluate on a case by case basis to help determine if the domestic program is an appropriate option for your family at this time.
It is important that you are emotionally and physically healthy and physically able to care for a child. If a medical condition exists the agency may request an independent medical evaluation. You must be financially able to incur the costs of the adoption in addition to providing for your child. This includes the adoption fee and medical and legal expenses of the birth parents.
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