What are the Benefits of Adoption? [10 Benefits for Everyone Involved]

Birth parents have the adoption benefit of knowing their child will be raised in a stable and loving home. 

When you work with a licensed adoption agency, you can be reassured that all waiting families have completed an adoption screening process that includes a home study inspection and family interviews. 

You can always know that you fulfilled hopeful parents’ dreams by helping them start or grow their family by placing your child into their lives.

In addition to adoption always being free for prospective birth mothers, financial assistance is available to help with things like:

• Living expenses
• Rent/bills
• Medical expenses
• More

Other free resources, like adoption counseling and support, are also available to you throughout the adoption process. These financial benefits of adoption can provide the financial freedom and emotional support you need to continue your life goals, such as your career and education, after adoption.

Adoption improves your potential for success later in life. Studies show that, compared to single mothers who choose to raise their babies, birth mothers are:

• more likely to finish school
• less likely to live in poverty
• more likely to marry
• less likely to divorce
• more likely to be employed a year after the baby is born

When you choose open adoption, you get to choose the level of communication you feel comfortable with between yourself, the adoptive parents, and their child. With an open adoption, you will always know how your child is doing, and you can watch him or her thrive because of your adoption decision. 

Studies have shown the advantages of communciation for everyone involved in an open adoption.

Adoptees may have the adoption benefit of opportunities that they wouldn’t have had otherwise. Adoptive homes offer a safe, stable environment for a child to grow. Adoptive parents are often more likely to have the financial resources to provide opportunities like travel and college for their child. 

Often, hopeful parents already have a room full of toys, books, clothes, and games ready for their child for weeks, months, and even years before they bring their child home. Adoptive families are excited and ready to begin their role as parents.

Researchers have studied and proven the advantages of adoption for children. It may help you to see the statistics associated with the quality of life for adoptees.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services once published findings on the advantages of adoption for adoptees. It included stats like:

• More likely to have health insurance than children in the general population.
• Less likely to live in households below the poverty line than children in the general population.
• 68% were read to every day as young children.
• 73% were sung to and told stories every day.
• 85% participated in extracurricular activities as school-aged children.
• Over 50% were reported to have very good or excellent performance in reading, language arts, and math.

Many adoptees in an open adoption have a healthy self-identity because they grow up knowing who their birth parents are and why their birth parents placed them for adoption. Children in an open adoption learn that adoption can be something to be proud of.

They have the opportunity to not only be loved and supported by their adoptive family but to remain involved and loved by their birth mother as well.

The benefits of adoption enhance the joy of life experiences for hopeful parents.

• Adoption fulfills the dream of parenthood for couples who are experiencing infertility.
• Same-sex couples can raise a child together in a loving home through adoption.
• A single hopeful parent can start or grow their family by becoming an adoptive parent.

These parents get the thing they want most in the world — a family — all because of a brave decision made by their child’s birth parents. To these families, birth parents are heroes.

Another benefit of adoption is communication through open adoption. Adoptive parents can get to know and form special relationships with their child’s birth family. Many adoptive parents admit that adoption not only grew their family by one child but also by adding their child’s biological family.

Birth parents and adoptive parents often become lifelong friends. Open adoption helps you, the birth mother, stay involved with your child, while growing yours and their support system at the same time.