Adoption

  • We advise

    • Parents who are thinking about giving their child up for adoption
    • Couples and individuals who are considering a possible adoption
    • Stepparents, stepchildren and birth parents in the decision-making process and implementation of a stepparent adoption
    • Searching adoptees and their parents, but also birth parents and siblings of adoptees in researching their biography and possible contacting

    The specialized service advises in cooperation with the placement offices of the districts of Altötting, Berchtesgadener Land, Ebersberg, Mühldorf, Traunstein and the district of Rosenheim as well as, if necessary, with national and international adoption placement offices in Germany. Adoption is a youth welfare service with the task of finding parents for children who cannot grow up with their biological parents in the long term. The counselors of the specialized service are their contact persons in all adoption matters.

  • We advise mothers and parents in the decision-making process regarding adoption, in particular about

    • possible help and support that could enable the child to remain in the family of origin
    • alternatives to adoption
    • Information about legal and personal consequences of adoption
    • Options for shaping an adoption, taking into account personal ideas and wishes for the child

  • We inform couples and individuals dealing with their desire to have a child about

    • national and international adoption procedures
    • legal and pedagogical requirements
    • the process of clarifying and determining suitability
    • formal requirements, especially the application for adoption

  • We inform and advise stepparent families and family members with regard to

    • application, process and requirements of the procedure
    • legal and pedagogical consequences and requirements
    • motivation and sustainability of established relationships
    • personal decision-making as a custodian, consenting parent or, if applicable, a young person requiring consent
    • the need for a transparent and respectful approach to dual parenting.

    As participants in the judicial process, we provide a professional opinion.

  • We inform and advise adoptees who are looking for information on

    • researching their biography and questions about their origins
    • the development of an individually coherent way of dealing with their own origins
    • the concrete search for birth parents and siblings
    • initiating contacts and personal meetings

    Further information can be found here.