November is National Adoption Awareness month, and the perfect time to expand your knowledge of adoption as it is today. Get the tools and information to help empower women in your community Learn about modern adoption and the choices expectant mothers have in...
Join us for a great conversation that will help you continue taking steps forward to the baby God has for you. This Q&A session was interactive and provided a great opportunity to hear questions answered about adoption, the process, and what other families are...
This webinar is open to anyone who is thinking about adopting a child, who may be considering Lifetime’s program, or who is actively moving through Lifetime’s program currently. We will cover a variety of topics and answer as many questions from our live audience as...
Get answers to some of the most-asked questions people have when they are thinking about adopting an infant in the U.S. Learn some of the basics and beyond as you prepare to walk through the steps of growing your family through domestic adoption. Topics discussed...
Have you been praying for a child or about whether adoption is the path to grow your family? If you sense a call to adoption in your heart then this live webinar is for you! We’ll share Lifetime’s heart for each adoption we come alongside, with our...
If you’ve sensed a call to adopt a baby or have been longing to grow your family and praying about if adoption is the right path for you, this webinar is a good place to start. Hear Lifetime’s experts discuss where to start, what to expect, and how to prepare...
In honor of National Adoption Awareness Month, Lifetime Adoption welcomed adoptive parent Amber to share her adoption story with you all. Amber, and her husband, Mickey, adopted their son last year. During this special webinar with Amber, we discussed issues such as:...
This special webinar is an opportunity to hear from one of Lifetime’s adoptive parents. Adoptive mom, Karyn, along with her husband Albert, recently welcomed home their baby girl. Karyn joins us to share her adoption story, experience, and tips. During this webinar,...
Join Lifetime’s coordinators, Jen Donnelly and Kim King, as they discuss the ins and outs of Lifetime’s application process. You’ll be able to determine if you should apply now or wait to do so and how to set yourself up for success. You’ll also enjoy an open Q...
When it comes to adoption, it’s common to be focused on the paperwork, the process, and the steps to reaching your adoption goal. Yet every adoption goal comes with a dream of life AFTER adoption! While it’s necessary to prepare for the details required to adopt...
If you’re thinking about adopting a baby, you likely have questions about how the process works, what to expect, and which program is the right help for your adoption goals. In this webinar, we answer many of the common questions future adoptive parents ask as...
With current events of COVID-19 on our daily news, and our inboxes FULL of Coronavirus notices, policies, and updates from businesses and events, it’s easy to ask, “How could this affect my adoption?” Join us for a Q&A webinar to discuss...
We love our Q&A Webinars because we get the opportunity to cover a variety of topics helpful for people hoping to adopt, through the different stages of the adoption process. From just thinking about adoption, to starting up, and ready and waiting, we answered...
Wherever you’re at on your own path to adoption, it helps to hear from others who have walked through the steps recently. In this webinar, we learn from Lifetime parents, Aaron and Kimberly, who share the story of how they decided to pursue adoption, what they...
When it comes to open adoption, it’s very common for both adopting parents and prospective birth mothers to have lots of questions about what it would be like, how to know if they can trust each other, and what to expect with adoptions today. If you’re hoping...
Adopting a baby in the U.S. is an involved process, but it doesn’t have to be complicated or overwhelming. Getting answers to your questions is key, throughout each step of your adoption planning. At Lifetime, we encourage adopting parents to learn as much as...
The ways we wait for the important things in life depend greatly on how you view the season of waiting you’re moving through. We know that every adoptive parent comes to Lifetime having already been moving through their own waiting—waiting through infertility,...
In this webinar we answer some of the most common topics, using very individual questions from our audience of future adoptive parents. Whether you’re just starting to learn about adopting a baby in the US, or if you’ve reached the point where you’re finding...
Lifetime often meets adoptive parents in the middle of their journeys to parenthood, at a crossroad where loss—of a dream, of a child, of a pregnancy—meets the potential for good things ahead through adoption. In this webinar, Lifetime mom, Ally, shares how she...
New adoptive mom, Megan, shares how she went from one of the hardest milestones to one of the happiest, all in a matter of months. In adoption, there’s only so much you can control when it comes to timing. In this family’s story, we hear how Megan moved through...
When it comes to adopting a baby, there’s a lot to learn! One of the best ways to prepare for your own path to adoption is to make sure you get answers from experts who daily work with the type of adoption you’re pursuing. In this webinar,...
Adoption has changed a lot, even from just a few years ago. It’s important to know what adopting a baby in the US is like TODAY. In this Q&A webinar, we discussed questions from people who are thinking about, or planning to pursue, domestic adoption....
There is SO much to learn when you decide you want to adopt. Even before you officially think of yourself as “hoping to adopt” there are terms, steps, and questions that every future adoptive parent will need to understand to successfully reach their personal adoption...
This webinar features a panel of adoptive moms with their own Lifetime Adoption stories. Each panelist answered questions from our audience of hopeful adoptive parents. This event was packed with insights, including: How to move from infertility to adoption...
There are so many important questions when it comes to adopting a child. It’s wise to learn as much as possible so you know what to expect! In this webinar, we answered great questions about: The requirements to adopt Why there are fees involved with adoption...
Hear from author and speaker, Elizabeth Laing Thompson, who has written two books which come highly recommended by hopeful adoptive parents, at any stage of their path to adoption. You’ll be encouraged to hear from Elizabeth’s heart for helping Christians...
Hopeful adoptive parents go through so much to prepare for the process to become ready to adopt. What about preparing for life after adoption? It’s important to prepare now for how you’ll share your family’s adoption story as your future child grows...
However you have been called to grow your family through adoption there are important decisions to make as you plan your family’s future. In this webinar, we offer insight and experience for those who wonder when it’s time to pursue adoption, including...
The blessing of hindsight is a gift for most adoptive parents. While they wait, hopeful adoptive parents often go through seasons of discouragement or wondering if they are still on the right track with their adoption. Once they adopt, most adoptive parents will share...
Today’s adoption stories look a lot different than stories from decades ago. Modern adoption has changed the way birth parents and hopeful adoptive families pursue adoption, and create a personal plan in the best interest of the child. In this webinar, we review the...
The Federal Adoption Tax Credit is an important resource for most adoptive parents. Whether you’re just beginning to research adoption for your family, if you’re actively waiting to adopt, or if you’ve recently adopted your child, it’s wise to learn about the Adoption...
Waiting to adopt comes with mixed emotions and natural highs and lows. Over one year ago, just days before Mother’s Day, adoptive parents, David and Deanna, anticipated yet another season waiting for a child. Then they got a call from Lifetime about a birth...
Every adoption story is an encouraging help to anyone thinking about or going through the process of adopting a child. And, every adoption story is as unique in the details as the individuals involved. This beautiful testimony of faith through infant loss shows a...
Going beyond the basics about your Adoption Home Study, our expert guest speaker helped us get a deeper look at what’s involved, and how your home study writer is working as a partner in your adoption. In this webinar, we answered many questions from hopeful adoptive...
Adoption Q&A Webinars give us an opportunity to discuss a variety of topics helpful to anyone thinking about or preparing to adopt a child. In this webinar we answered many questions including: Worry over adoptive parent age Why some women choose adoption and...
After adoption, adoptive parents go through all kinds of complex emotions as they adjust to life with a new child, on top of a new, unique relationship with their child’s birth mother. Many adoptive parents express a feeling of relief, while others feel a sort...
What’s the biggest hurdle you have to starting a path through adoption? In this Q&A Lifetime’s experts discuss the answers that help hopeful adoptive parents to overcome the common challenges to pursuing adoption. Offering encouraging insights, clarity, and tips...
Faith, perseverance, and flexibility are key for anyone called to follow a path to adopt a child. New adoptive parents, Jeff and Christa, speak from the heart about the little details they experienced as they pursued the adoption of their son, becoming...
In this webinar we discussed a variety of topics relevant to adoptive parents in all stages of adoption planning. A few highlights included adoption funding tips and resources, as well as encouragement for anyone waiting to add a child to their lives. Watch this...
Adoption Q&A Webinars are a great place to find out what questions others are asking as they move through the process of adopting a child, as well as providing an opportunity to learn more about Lifetime. In this webinar adoptive parents, in all stages of...
What would you want to ask another adoptive parent? In this webinar, we met with two adoptive moms who answered audience questions from their personal experiences through their families’ open adoptions. Beth and Heather spoke candidly about waiting to adopt,...
Tune in as we welcome a birth mother to Lifetime’s webinar, in honor of Mother’s Day. Tammy shares her story of open adoption. As a birth mother, adoption advocate, and peer support for pregnant women considering or choosing adoption. Tammy’s...
Open adoption can be easily misunderstood, that is until you see it through the lives of actual adoptive families and birth parents who came together through a child’s adoption. In this webinar discover open adoption’s great potential for a close, comfortable...
Most adoptive parents have an idea of what they think their adoption will or “should” look like. That preconceived idea is often changed as an adoption match unfolds and both sides get to know each other, and the circumstances, better. In Kerri’s story, you’ll hear...
Adoptive parents do well to learn about parenting and life-after-adoption as they prepare for the adoption process. Listen here as Mardie Caldwell, adoptive mom and founder of Lifetime Adoption, shares tips for healthy bonding and attachment with the child you will...
Adoptive dads have an important role through the adoption process, and they often have a unique perspective and experience as they move toward their family’s future through adoption. In this special webinar future adoptive moms and dads will appreciate...
There are so many questions adoptive parents have as they begin to research a path through adoption. In this webinar, adoptive parents asked us about embracing a child’s culture when it’s different from your own, how to time your fundraising with the start of your...
For the best understanding about open adoption it’s important to learn from the expertise of adoption professionals and from the experiences of those personally living with open adoption. In this webinar, Lifetime Adoption’s staff discuss the top questions...
With all of the information available to adoptive parents today, it’s important to make the most of the things you CAN control in the adoption process. In this webinar we shared tips and examples adoptive parents should consider to adopt safely and as smoothly as...
In this webinar you’ll hear from Rebecca, a birth mother who chose adoption for her newborn daughter 3 years ago. Living with open adoption and a beautiful friendship with her daughter’s adoptive parents, Rebecca shares insights from her personal experience and...
Tune in and hear a beautiful story of open adoption, as told by one baby boy’s adoptive mother and birth mom. In this webinar, adoptive mother Heather and birth mother Chloe share their story in order to help others know what open adoption looks like to them....
With every Adoption Q&A Webinar we never know what we’re going to get to discuss! This time our audience of future adoptive parents brought up a lot of questions about the adoption home study, how to avoid fraudulent home studies, updating home studies, home study...
It’s helpful for future adoptive parents to learn from people who have successfully moved through the adoption process. In this webinar, we met with Lifetime adoptive moms, Toni & Laura, who answered audience questions from their personal experiences with...
There are many questions that come up as hopeful parents begin to research or pursue adoption. In this webinar, Lifetime’s adoption experts discuss questions about Lifetime’s application process, what birth mothers are seeking in adoptive parents, adoption...
Hopeful adoptive parents will be encouraged and motivated hearing adoption expert and adoptive mom Mardie Caldwell share her testimony through miscarriage, infertility, and adoption. Any adoption journey comes with questions, hurdles, and excitement. In this webinar,...
Alan and Rebekah’s adoption story is a classic example of waiting for the right match and how to have a healthy perspective on open adoption. In this adoptive couple’s testimony you’ll learn tips for choosing the right adoption help, how to manage...
Every hopeful adoptive parent will have to decide what preferences, or search criteria, to pursue a child through adoption. The best way to decide how to set those preferences is to learn as much as possible and to be confident that those preferences will lead to an...
When it comes to open adoption, perhaps you’ve heard yourself or another say “I get why open adoption is good, but I’m not sure I could do it.” Understanding and embracing open adoption can feel like different steps, however actual adoption...
In this webinar Lifetime’s director answers the most-asked questions about bringing your baby home through adoption. If you’re hoping to adopt it’s good to prepare for more than getting to a match. In this webinar, inspired by actual questions of...
Waiting to adopt is a topic of question for many adoptive parents, even in the early stages of adoption planning. When you’re longing to add a child to your life, it’s easy to experience mixed emotions while you prepare to begin a path to adoption, or...
When it comes to adopting a child, some of the most-asked questions are about funding adoption costs. We got to discuss the services involved in an average US adoption, how to maximize your adoption budget, how to prepare for and continue building funds for your...
When it comes to answering the call to adopt each family’s story is different. Through Ryan and Laura’s adoption story, you’ll discover what it means to follow in faith step by step, and how to let your guard down to receive the help and blessings available when...
As a single adoptive mom, Cynthia’s adoption story will encourage and help anyone thinking about or preparing for adopting a child. Future couples and single parents hoping to adopt will appreciate this new mom’s insights and wisdom through her recent adoption...
Through any adoption planning, one of the most common topics of question and concern is the adoption home study. In order to complete an adoption, an approved home study is necessary—but that doesn’t mean it has to be stressful or nerve-racking. In this webinar you’ll...
Do you dream about the moment you’ll meet the child you’ll adopt? Do you wonder if you’ll have an instant connection to your child’s birth mother or how you’ll get through your nerves as you get to know her? Have you questioned what an...
Mardie Caldwell is founder of Lifetime Adoption Center, award winning adoption author, and most importantly an adoptive mom. In this webinar you’ll hear Mardie share tips and insights from her decades of expertise in adoption, both professionally and personally....
In this webinar, we talked about common comments we hear from adoptive parents-in-waiting in regards to adoption timing and how to do what you can toward your adoption goal, while balancing a healthy perspective and reasonable expectations on your adoption outcome. We...
While every adoption story has its own ups and downs, look for the support and experience of people who have experienced success. You’ll learn more about reaching your personal adoption goals when you seek out positive adoption experiences of people who have...
Tune in and hear adoptive couple Jeremiah and Audra’s adoption story. They were blessed to adopt a baby girl through Lifetime Adoption earlier this year. Adoption stories are a great way to learn from other people’s experiences and to be encouraged knowing...
Adoptive couple, Brent & Latonia, share their experience through open adoption and discuss their unique perspective as a transracial family. Find out how this adoptive mom and dad embrace their daughter’s birth mom in a way they never expected, along...
Tune in as we welcome a birth mother to Lifetime’s webinar, in honor of Mother’s Day. Tammy shares her story of open adoption. As a birth mother, adoption advocate, and peer support for pregnant women considering or choosing adoption. Tammy’s...
Many adopting parents wonder what it would be like to talk about adoption as a family, or what it’s like to have children with very different stories within one family. Discover what adoption means to this beautiful family, as told by Laurie, mother of three....
Do you wonder how you KNOW you’re being called to adopt? Do you ask yourself what it feels like to be chosen by a baby’s birth parents to adopt? Have you dreamed of that moment when you meet your child and imagined what it will be like? Summer’s...
Discover the top three mistakes adoptive parents make when it comes to adoption financing. During this webinar, we shared our tips and experience to help you avoid risks to your adoption budget and future adoption success. Call Lifetime Adoption at...
Discover Meredith’s heart for her daughter’s adoption story. Meredith and her husband, Scott, have a beautiful open adoption and Meredith has an inspiring friendship and connection with their daughters birth mother. Through this adoption story we explore...
In this webinar, we welcomed Lifetime’s founder, adoptive mom, and acclaimed adoption expert, Mardie Caldwell as a celebration of Adoption Month in November! Get comfy in your pj’s or favorite snuggly sweater to tune in to a Pajama Jam with Mardie. She...
As an adoptive father, Jake shares his side of his family’s story through two open adoptions. You’ll enjoy this unique perspective as he became a father and grew relationships with his children’s birth families. Jake shares personal stories from the...
Some of the most encouraging words and the best adoption advice come from people who have walked through their own stories. In this webinar, Sean and Charlene speak with us about their amazing adoption story. They share how their longing to become parents led them on...
Do you wonder what open adoption could look like for your future family? Is there anything about open adoption that holds you back from embracing the opportunities it could mean for your future as a parent? Maybe you think about what it would be like to have two...
Adoptive dad, Tim shared his family’s adoption story with us along with a unique look at adoption through an adoptive father’s experience. Tim and his wife, Tisha, adopted twice through Lifetime. Through two unique stories, Tim shares his tips and insights...
One of the best ways hopeful adoptive parents can prepare for or be encourages along their path to adoption is to learn from other adoption stories of parents who made it through the process. In this webinar, African American adoptive mom, MaRay, shares the details of...
What have you heard about open adoption? Sometimes the stereotypes, fears, and lack of understanding lead to perpetuating myths when it comes to open adoption. Tune in and discover what you can expect with open adoption, what it REALLY means to have an open adoption,...
Hollie is a birth mother who chose adoption for her son nearly 4 years ago. Since then, her life has grown and changed, and she maintains a good relationship with the family she chose for her baby. Find out what open adoption is like through this birth mom’s...
Ryan and Brandi are adoptive parents blessed twice by adoption; once through a U.S. open adoption, and once through an international adoption. Tune in and find out the details they learned through each experience that will help you discern the right path for your...
This adoption story features two African American families coming together for one precious child. You’ll hear the story of how birth mother Adrianne and adoptive parents Cheryl and Doug grew a relationship through open adoption, how they chose adoption in...
Tune in and meet 3 adoptive parents who will answer your adoption questions from their own personal adoption experiences. Get a variety of adoption insights and tips as we gather for a very interactive webinar event. Topics covered in this webinar included: Talking...
In this webinar, we were joined by adoptive mom and Lifetime’s founder Mardie Caldwell, C.O.A.P. Mardie answered questions about how Lifetime’s program is structured for your personal adoption success. We reserved plenty of time to discuss other questions...
Tonya, along with her mother, Karen, shares her personal adoption story and answers questions about her experience growing up through adoption. As part of Lifetime’s caring staff, Tonya brings a refreshing point of view as a child who was adopted into her...
Are you curious what open adoption could be like through the years after the adoption takes place? Have you thought about what it would be like to keep in touch with the family you chose for your baby or with your child’s birth parents? Tune in for Ashley and...
As you make plans for your future family, you may have questions and thoughts about what it will be like to have an on-going relationship with your child’s birth parent through open adoption. The potential for your future in open adoption is full of amazing...
Pregnant women and mothers looking into options for a child have many questions and concerns as they consider adoption. As you decide what will work out best for you and your child, there are two important things we want to share about adoption: It’s never too late...
Your BEST Adoption Resource is Another Adoptive Parent During this webinar, adoptive mom, Della, and her husband, Tony, an African American family, share a fresh perspective through the details of the journey that led them to grow their family through a Lifetime...
Meet the heart of Lifetime Adoption, Mardie Caldwell, C.O.A.P. From miscarriages and failed fertility treatments, Mardie began a path to parenthood through adoption, leading her to discover the steps you’ll need to find adoption success through an adoption for a...
In this webinar, Mardie answers questions from the audience and discussed tips for parents in many aspects of adoption planning: – Find out Mardie’s suggestions for anyone thinking about adopting a child. – Discover how Mardie’s own adoption...
