Alaska Adoption Information

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Adopting in Alaska

Individuals who wish to adopt in Alaska can find children looking for homes in the foster care system. However, finding infants or younger children in foster care is very rare. Most children are older and have been removed from their birth parents due to abuse and neglect.

Infants and younger children needing homes can often be found through the use of a licensed child-placing agency. These agencies work with birthmothers who choose to place their child for adoption.

Families who want to adopt in Alaska must be finger printed, complete an application, attend training and have a home study done. A family can be matched with a child, once all the paperwork and ... [more]

Adoption Professionals in Alaska

Attorneys

Agencies

International

Other Services

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Unplanned Pregnancy

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

Couples Hoping to Adopt in Alaska

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Children Waiting for Adoption in Alaska

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 Alaska who are hoping to be adopted.

We're sorry, Alaska does not currently feature children in The Adoption.com Photolisting. Contact your state officials if you'd like to see children waiting for adoption in the Adoption.com photolisting.

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Alaska Adoption Forums

Hello out there

July 11, 2009, 9:24 pm

We live in southeast Alaska and just had our homestudy completed by WACAP. We just also became ...

Searching for Danielle

June 29, 2009, 12:48 am

Born in Anchorage Alaska, 1968 Dec. I was a good friend of B/M and her sisters & parents, thru the ...

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

alaska 1973

...ISO Bmom or any family I was Adopted my Military family born 3/22/73 Adopted mom told me about ...

Looking for my mom, I was born in Alaska in ...

...Alaska in 1967, and lived at the salvaction army 1/2 way house, She liked Ice skating and was a ...

We are going to Alaska!!!

Hi, after much debate and dragging of feet by the military we were offered a PCS to Anchorage ...

Baby boy Comstock, I was born 10/11/67 Alaska

...Looking for my birth mom, Lucile c. Comstock age 15 in 1967. Its coming around Christmas time ...

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Alaska Adoption Laws

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

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Alaska Adoption Registry

Adoptees

Birthmothers

Birthfathers

Siblings, etc

May 15, 1973 (F) - Barrow tribe [ more ]

Jun 20, 1965 (M) - My birth mother's name at the time was jennifer peterson. [ more ]

Sep 1, 1975 (M) - You tell me information i need to know about my genetic background and medical history known from blood relatives. [ more ]

May 19, 1970 (M) - Mother's name elizabeth marie waldron of montana (birth state). father was supposedly a merchant sailor??? may ... [ more ]

Mar 5, 1963 (M) - Not sure of birth date. living with parents, adopted from the hospital. could not write date down. i was not ... [ more ]

Dec 29, 1989 (M) - Adoptive parents fran lived in the virgin islands, then i think they moved to florida. i think that is were the ... [ more ]

Jul 5, 1987 (M) - Fathers name john williams [ more ]

Feb 14, 1971 (M) - 11:12 pm./6lbs.11.5oz./20in.long/curly hair. ped. dr. thomas larson (or lawson) [ more ]

Feb 14, 1971 (M) - Birth mother greta rofkar. [ more ]

Nov 30, 1985 (M) - Birth city is probably fairbanks or anchorage- believe child was adopted to family in new york. child probably ... [ more ]

Nov 30, 1968 (M) - Father bruce in the army [ more ]

Jan 22, 1986 (M) - Private adoption. no records available. we know that the child was born january 22 or 23 in anchorage, AK. we ... [ more ]

Jun 5, 1974 (F) - Birth mother's name was teresa marie webber (deceased) and her date of birth was 06/06/58 in anchorage, alaska. ... [ more ]

Nov 30, 1958 (M) - Looking for baby boy mackey, born possibly february 1958 or 1959 [ more ]

Sep 15, 1985 (F) - Father, samuel edward de blanc, deceased befor birth. mother: tina andersen, maternal grandparents: gary and ... [ more ]

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Alaska Adoption Blogs

Custody Wars

I recently came across this website on the Internet called, Win Your Child Custody War . ... [ more ]

Deadline for Public Comment on Agencies for ...

For those who have adopted internationally or are now dealing with agencies in your ... [ more ]

Hot off the Press (almost): 'Bones that ...

On March 24, 2001, American writer Kari Grady Grossman walked into a crowded orphanage ... [ more ]

Definitions of Child Abuse and Neglect

Often times when families are considering a stepparent adoption, the abandonment of the ... [ more ]

Adoption Directory Search

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Adoption in Florida

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Caring for Kids Adoptions

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