Iowa Adoption Information

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Adoption in Iowa

Iowa adoption offers many options to families. You may adopt an infant or older child through an international adoption, an infant through domestic adoption, or an older child or special needs child through domestic foster care adoption. All adoptions require a home study.

Iowa Adoption Home Study

A home study is required to help match you with the child that would be the best fit in your family, along with critical background checks, financial checks, fingerprinting and personal evaluations. You can expect to be asked very personal questions about parenting style, your life growing up, family relationships, your marriage (if applicable) along with a check of ... [more]

Adoption Professionals in Iowa

Attorneys

Agencies

International

Other Services

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Unexpected Pregnancy Hotline We offer free counseling and support. Talk with a trained counselor who will help you explore your options and determine your future. 800-537-2229   [more]

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Iowa Counselors & Therapists
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Iowa State Foster Care Managers
Iowa State Licensing Specialists

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Unplanned Pregnancy

If you are pregnant and considering adoption, visit the Adoption Directory to speak with a caring professional in Iowa.You can also view profiles of hopeful adoptive couples in or near Iowa in the listing below, provided as a service of ParentProfiles.com.

Couples Hoping to Adopt in Iowa

View profiles of hopeful adoptive parents or create your own adoption profile today on ParentProfiles.com (A service of Adoption Profiles, LLC).

Featured Iowa Couples from Parent Profiles

Gregory & Billinda (from Iowa)

We would love and care for your precious baby more than can be humanly expressed. We both have had first hand, personal experience with adoption and feel we understand the issues and emotions associated. Please see what we have to offer your child.

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Children Waiting for Adoption in Iowa

Are you ready to be a parent? There are tens of thousands of children in the United States foster system and many more available children worldwide. There are many children in Iowa who are hoping to be adopted.

Featured Iowa Children from The Adoption.com Photolisting

Ricky  (Iowa / 10 / M)

Ricky and Leeann have lots of activities they would like to do with their adoptive family. They would love to go on...[more]

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Brandon

Steven

Cynthia

Bryce

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Iowa Adoption Forums

Info on girl 2/28/59 Sioux City

February 7, 2010, 8:50 pm

:wings: I have information on a girl born 02/28/59 in Sioux City. Her birth name was Anette ...

ISO birth mother/family

January 22, 2010, 9:22 pm

female, born Dec. 29,1963@ Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines, IA adopted through the Iowa ...

See what other people are saying about Iowa in the adoption forums.

In search of BM born 3/30/1965 in Iowa

...Iowa at St. Anthony's Hospital. The adoption was private. I do believe that I have siblings, ...

looking for birthmother in iowa

Born march 19 1980, female johnson county, Iowa. Iowa city Iowa. University hospital

ISO son born 2-14-69 in Dubuque Iowa

...Iowa, I went to courthouse in Dubuque and also registered so you can contact me. Hoping to hear ...

looking for sister born in 1949 in stanton ...

...Iowa. the baby was born in 1949. there are six of us kids and we are all very thrilled with this ...

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Iowa Adoption Laws

• Iowa - Access to Adoption Records Requirements
• Iowa - Adoption Statutes Citations and Contacts
• Iowa - Consent to Adoption
• Iowa - Parties to an Adoption
• Iowa - Putative Fathers
• Iowa - State Regulation of Adoption Expenses
• Iowa - Infant Safe Haven Laws
• Iowa - Use of Advertisers and Facilitators
• Iowa - State Statutes Regarding International Adoptions

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Iowa Adoption Registry

Adoptees

Birthmothers

Birthfathers

Siblings, etc

Sep 15, 1968 (F) - Birth father was 17 [ more ]

Aug 22, 1986 (M) - I really don't know that much about all this [ more ]

Oct 11, 1968 (F) - Birth mothers name was christine hollinger [ more ]

Nov 2, 1965 (F) - Baby chamblee is on the adoption papers. i spent 6 weeks in a foster home with the name justine stuart [ more ]

Jan 27, 1968 (M) - Registration no. h2pkpl058917 birth mother iso male adoptee dob 27 jan 1968 IA birthmother's country of birth: ... [ more ]

Oct 8, 1981 (M) - Time of birth was 10:55 a.m. child has blue eyes and weighed 7lbs 5ozs. i have very little information. none was ... [ more ]

Apr 1, 1975 (M) - Born in the morning around 10:00 am. [ more ]

Jul 25, 1980 (F) - I believe i found you on adopteeconnect.com; i responded on that website. [ more ]

Nov 20, 1975 (M) - Twins were born in souix city iowa to mother- jocelyn mcgill and father- mick (michael c. ) humpal-- one boy and ... [ more ]

Aug 4, 1982 (M) - Ssn#480-15-0587 [ more ]

May 6, 1953 (F) - The only thing we know about the birth mother is that she was a student at drake university in des moines and was ... [ more ]

Jan 18, 1962 (F) - Did not go through an agency. was private adoption. [ more ]

Jan 24, 1956 (M) - Gregory was taken by welfare (state of iowa) when he was 2 years old. we do know he was adopted. unknown if he was ... [ more ]

Sep 30, 1967 (M) - It's possible that the adoption took place through the catholic charities. [ more ]

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Iowa Adoption Blogs

News story on open adoption

There's another adoption story in the news, this one about a pair of open adoptions in ... [ more ]

Russian Adoption Hosting Programs

Summertime used to be filled with news of Russian orphans coming to the United States for ... [ more ]

Studies of Youth in Foster Care

Reprinted with permission. There have been several studies done that focus on youth in ... [ more ]

Iowa Governor May Search for Birth Mother

Vilsack, 56, was adopted shortly after birth and has spoken of growing up in a family ... [ more ]