| For more than forty years, Children's Home Society & Family Services has worked with Korean child welfare agencies to find families for more than 8,000 children of Korean heritage. In 2008, 150 children from Korea, most under 12 months of age, were placed with adoptive families through our agency.
By agreement with our Korean partner agencies, families of Korean heritage living anywhere in the United States and those non-Korean families living in Minnesota, Iowa, Western Wisconsin, Maryland, Northern Virginia, or Washington, D.C., (where CHSFS provides adoption study and post-placement services) are able to adopt children who have no known long-term special needs, through our traditional program (also called the General Program or Regular Program).
Families in all other states and those whose adoption studies have been completed by an agency other than CHSFS, can only adopt Korean waiting children who are older, at varying degrees of risk due to background issues, or children with medical needs (some of which may be correctable) or developmental needs, through our Waiting International Child program.
With its long history and careful development of international adoption services, the Korean program is well-regulated by the government and licensed agencies. Medical information about the children is detailed and readily available. These attributes make the adoption process predictable and the program appealing to many families.
To learn more adopting from Korea through Children's Home Society & Family Services:
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