You can work either with any licenced child adoptive agency or directly with the people, who are going to adopt your future baby. There are several types of adoption agencies: they can be for profit or non profit, some of them also work with prospective adoptive parents of a definite religious group, race, nationality, but most of adoptive agencies work with birth parents of all races, religious, nationalities, what you need is to be a citizen of the country you are going to deliver your baby and place him or her for adoption in.

When you visit the adoption agency, you are allowed to ask all questions, which bother you, but there are some general ones, situated below, which you should not forget to ask:
• Will I get support through my pregnancy term, after I sign all the papers which allow my child to be adopted?
• What kind of financial, medical and legal help can I receive, if any?
• Will I be able to receive any information about the family (person), who is going to adopt my future baby?
• How can I know they are good people?
• Will It be possible for me to meet them at present or in case if I ever decide to?
• Will I ever be able to see my child or to have contact with him or her?
• Will I be able to receive any kind of information about my baby’s growth and development, and about how he or she turns in?
• What kind of information about me and my family will the people, who are going to adopt my baby, be provided with?

When you come to the adoptive agency, the social worker will ask you definite questions, in order to get some information about you and the father of your future baby. These questions are asked to place your baby with parents, who will be able to take complete care of him, and who will take special care in case of necessity. The questions will possibly be the following ones:
• What is your state of health?
• How old are your?
• What is your nationality?
• What are your physical characteristics?
• Did you see a doctor after you became pregnant?
• Have you ever been pregnant before or have you delivered a baby before?
• Do you smoke?
• Did you take drugs or drink alcohol since you became pregnant?
 There are Private Adoption Agencies as well, and they mostly arrange infant adoptions. If you want to find Private Adoption Agency in the area you live in, the easiest way to do it to look in the yellow pages of your local phone book under the chapter “Adoption Agencies”.

 If you want to arrange your baby’s adoption without taking any adoption agency into consideration, it means you will have to conduct an independent or private adoption. In case of private adoption you are to find an attorney, who will represent you. It would be better for you to find the attorney, who will not charge you a fee in case if you decide to keep your baby and not to place him or her for adoption. The finding of adoptive parents also depends on you, as you are to look for them.

 If your baby is a child of colour there are many adoption agencies, which try to place a child of colour to a family, where at least one of the parents will be of the same race as the baby. Some of adoptive agencies specialize only in looking for families for children of colour. There are some adoption agencies that have no policies about placing babies with families of the same race, as some people may want to adopt a baby of a different colour. If you wish, you may apply to one of such agencies.

 But you should also be aware that not many families of colour want to adopt a baby. It may possibly be because they do not know that there are babies of some other race than European are available for adoption, or these people may also feel uncomfortably about the process of adopting a baby itself. The adoption agencies, which work with families of colour do all the best to let their communities know that there are children of different races, available for adoption. These agencies also try to make the adoption process easier and less confusing.