No. Our focus is on Domestic home studies.

We are currently offering our services to all of Pennsylvania. Please speak with a staff person to discuss your location.

A full home study is valid for three years. During that time, however, we must conduct annual visits and complete a home study update. This ensures that any changes to family situation or dynamic are discussed and do not affect the ability to place a child in your home or family.

Absolute Love Adoptions does not believe that specifying gender is ethical. We do not permit requests for the gender of the child desired.

The agency accepts personal checks, cashier’s checks and we offer a pay online feature. Please speak with your Specialist to retrieve the code to pay online should you wish to use this service.

While each county may have different requirements, it is ALA policy that pre-adoptive families renew their clearances annually.

We ask families to complete 20 hours of training before being home study approved. There is a great deal of information about adoption that will directly impact the well being of the child you adopt. We feel a solid foundation of understanding core topics in adoption is essential to the long term health of you as parents, and your adopted child. These topics include: grief and loss, adoption trauma, openness, adoptee and birth parent experiences, trauma informed parenting, ethics in adoption, transracial adoption, and more. 

We work with you during the interview process to assess where your knowledge gaps are in these areas and recommend a custom curated educational program based on your needs. While some families opt for paid trainings, others complete this process with minimal additional expenses for education.

We are not a faith based agency. We work with all families regardless of their faith or religion. While we ask questions in the interviews about faith and religion, this is an effort to understand your life and family values.

We recognize that expectant parents make requests for all different kinds of families. Some are seeking very active religious families, and others are seeking a non-religious family. Therefore, we seek to approve families based on their fitness to parent an adopted child, not relative to their faith, beliefs or religious practices.

We generally feel that successful parenting of an infant is physically and emotionally demanding. Parenting is a daily and full time responsibility, and it requires energy and enthusiasm. Quantifying age does not always correspond to energy and enthusiasm, as there are many variables to consider. Therefore, we do not have an age limit. 

However, we do ask families to consider their potential lifespan and the demands on an aging person for parenting a newborn. We will communicate if our assessment of your family during the interviews suggests that advancing age may be of concern to parenting a newborn.

Yes, the majority of our clients match out of state and are therefore required to pass ICPC (Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children). We are familiar with the process, and assure you our paperwork will be in compliance with ICPC requirements.