Statistics show that in the United States there are over 500 thousand children in foster care; a majority of them are African American or African American mixed children. One hundred thousand are waiting to be adopted. With the Internet and sites like Lifetime Adoption, it is taking less than 10 months for most couples to adopt.

The one family type that is always in high demand by our birthmothers is the African American family. Black families interested in African American newborns are normally matched with a birth mother within a few months.

"Many calls come in on our 24 hour hotline," states a coordinator at Lifetime. "A birth mother wants to have her baby adopted immediately from the hospital to avoid foster care altogether. When we receive that phone call in the middle of the night, we are able to tell the birth mother about adoptive families and then call a family immediately." Once the birth mother chooses a family, they can meet at the hospital and the baby goes home with the adoptive family.

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Adoptive families today have many choices with open or semi-open adoption.

For the adoptive family, there is the comfort of knowing the family medical history for your child and their genealogy. And when those inevitable questions about heritage arise, parents can comfortably and openly tell them about who they are and share from the heart to comfort their child. Your child will know he or she was loved because of a loving choice their birth parent made, an important fact you can share with them.

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