Home Study and Counselling

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The purpose of the Home Study Report is twofold, One is to provide you with an opportunity, as prospective adoptive parents, to think through your decision to adopt and to have all your apprehensions and doubts clarified, so that you feel confident of your decision. Secondly, it is an assessment of your capacity to parent, and of your emotional readiness to parent a child who is not related to you biologically. Through individial and joint interviews, and a visit to your home, the agency is assuring itself that you will provide a caring and nurturing home for the adopted child. A dual responsibility lies with the professinals working in adoption: to help you make your decision and adopt a suitbale child into the family; and to help abandoned, destitute children become part of your family and gain a permanent home which gives them love, security, protection and apportunities for helathy growth and personal development. When you approach an agency, you may have a lot of anxieties and misconeptins about the process of adoption. It is agency's responsibility to reassure you, alleviate your doubts and answer your queries. You are also asked wheter, in the past, you approached any other adoption agencies and whether you are likely to do so in the future; this aviods work being duplicated for both you and the agencies involved. The role and responsibility of the placement agency at this stage is really to establish a comfortable, mutually acceptable and open relationship and to establish a contract for work.