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Adoption

DID YOU KNOW?

As a pregnant person choosing adoption, you have a right to person-centering healthcare and a supported birth.

Making an adoption plan is the ultimate parenting decision.
You are not “giving up your baby” or giving up on anything, including yourself.
As an expectant parent, or birth parent, you will decide what is best for your baby.

Adoptions of Wisconsin, Inc.

Planning an adoption does not erase your experience of pregnancy, labor, and birth.  The healthcare you access during pregnancy, labor, and birth can affect your health and well being for the rest of your life. You have a right to person-centering and community-informed healthcare, a well supported pregnancy and birth, and a positive adoption experience.​


Adoption Resources

On this page, we list adoption organizations that support pregnant people in making individualized and informed decisions and help them create an adoption plan that feels best for them. These organizations welcome single, unmarried, multi-racial, and LGBTQIA+ folks as prospective adoptive families and are not affiliated with religious groups. 

Wisconsin

WiAdopt

An informational hub for options, resources, and support around adoption, created through a partnership between the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families and the Coalition for Children, Youth & Families. WiAdopt is affirming of LGBTQIA+ people and unmarried people, but the majority of adoption organizations in Wisconsin is not. Please note the inclusivity details provided on their statewide organization list. 

Adoptions of Wisconsin, Inc.

Offices in Madison, works with pregnant people statewide as well as those outside the state who wish to consider adoptive families in Wisconsin

Person-centering counseling is offered to help pregnant people determine options that are best for them. Callers exploring adoption are not obligated to choose adoption. Prospective adoptive parents are required to agree to some form of open adoption, but  if a birth parent does not want ongoing contact (a closed adoption) , that choice will be honored.

Out-of-State

Adoption Connection

Office in San Francisco, works with pregnant people in all states  

Welcomes couples and individuals of all ages, religions, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions.

Adoptions Together

Offices in Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia, works with pregnant people in all states 

Builds family connections for every child and advocates for continuous improvement of systems that promote the well being of children.

Choice Network

Office in Ohio, works with many states, including Wisconsin  
Helps make connections between families placing a baby for adoption and families wishing to adopt.

Friends in Adoption

Offices in New York and Vermont, works with people in all States  

Helps to empower individuals and families to make informed decisions around adoption.

Open Adoption & Family Services

Offices in Oregon and Washington, works with people in all States

A pro-choice agency with fully open adoptions that include ongoing visits and lifelong services.

Pact: An Adoption Alliance

Offices in California, works with people in all States  

Places children of color and recruits adoptive families who seek to adopt children of color as their first choice.