Mixed-race couples may prefer to adopt a biracial baby.
Adopting a baby is a wonderful option for those who would like to be parents, but, for medical, genetic or other reasons, can't or choose not to have a biological child. Adopting a biracial baby, like adopting any child in the U.S., involves going through a screening process and communicating with an adoption agency and the biological family to find the best match.
Instructions
The Adoption Process
1. Visit a reputable adoption agency in person or on line. Bi-racial Adoptions is an agency that specializes in mixed race adoptions, but most adoption agencies will have biracial children up for adoption.
2. Fill out an application form. The form will ask many questions about you, your family, your financial situation, criminal history, plans for raising the child and so on. Some questions will screen out applicants, while others are meant to help the birth mother choose an appropriate adoptive parent. It is required by law to fill out the application form honestly.
3. Submit your application by mail, email or fax along with a photo of yourself and, if applicable, your wife, husband or partner.
4. Wait one to three weeks to hear back from the agency. If you have been approved as a potential adopter, you may receive additional documents and forms to read and fill out before you may continue with the process.
5. Complete and send in all of this additional documentation, and read the additional materials. Wait for the adoption agency to review these materials. They will send you an activation agreement.
6. Print, sign, notarize and return the activation agreement along with applicable fees. Your adoptive status will be activated shortly after the receipt of this agreement, and some of your information will be made available to birth mothers.
7. Continue to study child care and adoption as you wait to be matched with a birth mother. The birth mother herself may select you as a parent, or the adoption agency may make the match. Once you are matched, your adoptive status becomes inactive.
8. Communicate with the birth mother and/or adoptive family specialist until the baby is born.
9. Take your new biracial baby home once he or she is born.
10. Cooperate with court-regulated home-placement visits for however long is required.
11. Attend the final court hearing, at which you will officially be recognized as an adoptive parent.
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