Adoption News at Lifetime
Free Adoption Informational Meeting for Prospective Adoptive Families
For more information, please call 530-432-7373
Upcoming Informational Meetings |
July 12, 2008
10:30 am-2:00 p.m.
Rough & Ready, CA |
Are you considering adopting? There is a baby for you!
Have you thought about adopting a child but don't know where to start? Lifetime Adoption is holding free informational meetings and teleconferences to help families learn more about how they can be blessed through adoption.
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Informational Meeting at Lifetime Adoption Center. |
Lifetime's qualified staff will address your adoption concerns, as well as answer other questions, such as:
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What do you need to do to get started?
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What is independent adoption?
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How much does it cost?
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How to save money in your adoption
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Answers to your legal questions
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How long does it take?
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What Adoption Services are important for your success?
These meetings will begin promptly at the scheduled time, Pacific Time. When you register you will be sent information and directions to our Northern California office.
Click here to view directions to Lifetime Adoption at MapQuest.com.
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During Lifetime's Informational Meeting, you will meet the director, Mardie Caldwell, and the staff of Lifetime who will be happy to answer your adoption questions.
Click here to fill out a free application.
If you are interested in attending a meeting in your state, please let us know.
Adoption tax credit rises to $11,390
Parents who finalized an adoption last year may claim a maximum credit of $11,390 for adoption expenses on their federal income tax returns. The tax credit phases out for taxpayers with high modified adjusted gross incomes. Although the tax credit is set to expire in 2010, proposals to make that benefit permanent have received much legislative support.
Qualifying expenses include necessary adoption fees, court costs, attorney fees, traveling expenses, and other expenses directly related to the adoption. Adoptive parents who plan to claim the credit should file Form 8839, titled Qualified Adoption Expenses, and attach it to Form 1040. For more information and other downloads to required forms, please visit the IRS website by clicking here.
National Adoption Awareness Month
November is National Adoption Awareness Month and Lifetime Adoption has begun a campaign to raise awareness and education surrounding adoption.
Join us in celebrating National Adoption Awareness Month by joining our efforts, you can help with your family, friends, coworkers, and community to create adoption awareness and support for the Lifetime Adoption Foundation.
If you would like adoption related materials, please call
530-432-7383, or if you would like to make a donation please click on the link below. All of your donation proceeds go directly to support the Lifetime Adoption Foundation and our Birthmother Blessings program.
Visit our National Adoption Awareness Month site to find many wonderful gifts related to Adoption Awareness: the new Lifetime Adoption mug, a beautifully designed "For A Lifetime" circle of love pendant necklace, or a copy of Mardie Caldwell"s Adopting Online.com book. Shop for those in your life and help support the Lifetime Adoption Foundation.
The Lifetime Adoption Foundation is a non-profit 501 ©(3) charity and your donation is tax deductible. Please visit www.LifetimeFoundation.org today to learn more about how you can help support adoption.
Lifetime Adoption is Passionately Pink for the Cure!
On October 31st, 2007, Lifetime Adoption joined the Go Pink! campaign in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We started a team supporting Susan G. Komen's Passionately Pink for the Cure and are excited about participating in the fight against breast cancer. Staff and other community members are making contributions to donate to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. We have exceeded our goal!
To see the results of our Go Pink! campaign, please visit our Lifetime Adoption Passionately Pink webpage by clicking here.
We're excited to be part of such a worthy project supporting women's health!
Lifetime's Founder Mardie Caldwell, COAP Appeared Live on the Today Show
In over 21 years of helping build thousands of families through adoption, Mardie Caldwell, COAP, has seen it all. She has, in fact, written two award-winning books on the subject and is the founder of one of the largest adoption centers in the country, Lifetime Adoption. Now she is sharing her expertise during a feature on America's #1 morning show, NBC's 'Today Show'.
Adoption is seeing a resurgence in this country, in fact 3 out of 5 people are touched by adoption. And while, in theory, the adoption process may seem fairly basic, families just starting to adopt face many decisions before they even begin. Add to that the seemingly endless river of paperwork and red tape, and it is easy to see why adoption experts like Caldwell are vital in ensuring adoption success.
Caldwell appeared on the Today Show in New York on Wednesday, May 9th, and discussed recent changes in adoption. You may view her appearance by clicking on the button below:
Caldwell currently hosts a weekly radio talk show, Let's Talk Adoption, which enables her to encourage and educate adoptive parents as well as others interested in adoption. Her first book, AdoptingOnline.com won the Benjamin Franklin Award from Publishers' Weekly, and her second Adoption: Your Step-by-Step Guide garnered various awards as well. Caldwell currently has three more books scheduled for release with her publisher, American Carriage House Publishing, all related to adoption.
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Are You Seeking Resources to Fund Your Adoption?
Finally, an Adoption Financing Program to Help Families Move Closer to a Successful Adoption!
Lifetime Adoption is proud to introduce our new adoption financing program, created with you in mind! Whether you are looking for funds to help pay for your adoption, pay off your fertility treatments, or add on to your house to help accommodate your growing family, this program is exactly what you have been looking for!
Click here to apply today!
Teleconferences
 If you are interested in a teleconference, you may sign up for Lifetime's newsletter by clicking here and it will send you notices for upcoming classes.
AdoptingOnline.com, the new book by Lifetime's founder, Mardie Caldwell, C.O.A.P., is being featured this week on Dr. Laura Schlessinger's radio show. Dr. Laura has called AdoptingOnline.com "an awesome resource for anyone interested in adopting."
"An Awesome Resource for Anyone Interested in Adoption!"
-Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Click play to listen to Dr. Laura's comments:
President & Mrs. Bush Encourage Adoption!
"The adoption of a boy or a girl is a moment of joy for a family, and it's an act of great generosity. When parents share their homes and all they have with a child, the child they adopt and love as their own, all their lives are transformed forever."
-- President George W. Bush
The President and First Lady have promoted adoption and have passed legislation that encourages both families and states to pursue adoption, including providing increased funding and tax credits for those who do.
Learn more about how President Bush is helping families welcome children into their homes through adoption via the links below:
Adoption Promotion Act of 2003
Strong Families, Safe Children
"For the sake of our children this nation has a responsibility to encourage adoption of children at all ages, from infants to adolescents."
-- President George W. Bush
Have You Seen the Lifetime Staff Pages?
Meet your Lifetime staff by clicking here. You can visit staff members' pages to learn more about the team that is working for you.
A Call to Action
We are hearing from more and more birthmothers about the difficulties they encounter with birthfathers when trying to make an adoption plan. Refusal to cooperate, followed by refusal to support the child either financially or emotionally after they are born, is never in the best interest of the child. Read about Birth Father Registries and learn what you can do to help women make the choice of adoption for their child.
Learn More about Adoption Online at
Let's Talk Adoption... with Mardie Caldwell
Mardie Caldwell host a new weekly radio talk show focused on Adoption. "Lets Talk Adoption …with Mardie Caldwell. The program can be heard world wide on the Internet on LetsTalkAdoption.com.
The hour-long program features guests with expertise in different aspects of the adoption experience. Broadcasting live every Sunday at 3 pm PT.
Programs are engaging, informing and inspiring, providing listeners with practical ideas they can use immediately. Topics range from adoption law to a birth parent perception of adoption to financing your adoption. Also discussed are new books, adoption in the news and answers to questions from our adoption mail bag. To find out more or listen, click here.
Mardie Caldwell is a Certified Open Adoption Practitioner. She has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, Cable, Fox, BBC and PBS affiliated programs, Parenting Life, Parenting Magazine, Adoptive Family magazine, and Wisdom Radio , bringing families and birth parents together and sharing the positive message of adoption since 1986.
Caldwell has swiftly become one of the nation's leading authorities on adoption using the Internet. Many, including Dr. Laura Schlessinger, have endorsed Caldwell’s book AdoptingOnline.com
ATTENTION: Lifetime contracted families on active duty military, part of the military reserves or special duty military:
If at least one spouse in your family is currently being deployed in the service of our country to aid in the fight against terrorism, Lifetime is offering you the option of an extended contract freeze.
A contract freeze allows your family to put adoption plans on hold temporarily, to be resumed at a future date. There is no charge for a contract freeze, nor is any contract time or money lost.
If a contract freeze would help your family at this critical time, please contact your Lifetime coordinator to discuss this option for your contract. We would like to help in any way we can.
We appreciate your sacrifices. May God be with your family.
 Lifetime Adoption Foundation
If you have been touched by adoption and would like to find out more about what Lifetime Foundation is doing to help birth mothers, visit their website today. Please click on the play button to hear a special message:
Families Needed
Lifetime Adoption is currently looking for African American or African American mixed couples looking to adopt African American or African American mixed race children of any gender. We currently have numerous birth mothers waiting for you to contact us. To learn more about the grant programs available, visit African American Adoptions Online today.
Open Adoption is blessing both birth and adoptive families in so many ways. OpenAdoption.com encourages you to learn more about Open Adoption through the articles and information contained in their website. Learn how you can touch the life of someone else through adoption, and how your life in return may be blessed.
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