Search & Post-Adoption

Search & Post-Adoption

The issues of adoption continue throughout the years following the child’s placement. Lutheran Social Services of Montana’s post- adoptive program is designed to meet the needs of birthparents, adoptive parents and adoptees in the years after the legal finalization of the adoption. Services at this time include: Adoptive file searches for additional social/medical information, registry services, search/reunion services, and post-adoption counseling. Update information is always welcome to be placed in the LSS-MT file.

LSS-MT is also authorized to participate in the confidential intermediary program which serves those whose adoptions were not arranged through LSS-MT.

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For more information, please call our Great Falls Office at (406) 761-4341 or email us at Search & Post-Adoption.

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Reunion Statistics*

85 percent of adoptees searched for a birth relative after getting birth information.
76 percent of reunion participants stayed in contact three years after the first meeting; 55 percent were still in contact eight years later.
73 percent searched for their birthmothers, while only 24 percent located their birthfathers.
51 percent located siblings after meeting with the birthmother; 85 percent remain in contact with siblings three years later.
Overall, less then 10 percent of the reunions resulted in an initial rejection.

* David Howe and Julia Feast, Adoption Search and Reunion: The Long-Term Experience of Adopted Adults (2000).