Service Finder

back

Check suitability as adoptive parents for domestic adoption

Service Description

The aim of an adoption is to find the most suitable parents for a child who, for various reasons, cannot grow up with his or her birth parents.

For this reason, the adoption agencies carefully examine the suitability of the potential adoptive parents. This involves, for example, the motives for the adoption, the stability of the partnership or health aspects.

Process flow

You apply to an adoption agency for an adoption. This can either be your youth welfare office or a recognized non-governmental adoption agency.
This is followed by a suitability test. For this purpose, the specialists of the adoption agency will talk to you to find out more about you.

This procedure can take several months. Only after a positive suitability test by the youth welfare office is an adoption possible.

However, this is no guarantee that an adoption placement will actually take place.

Competent authority

Youth welfare office or a recognized non-governmental adoption agency

Requirements

If you wish to adopt a child in Germany, you must have unlimited legal capacity under German law and be at least 25 years old. If you are married, at least one of the two spouses must be that age, and the younger spouse must be at least 21. There is no maximum age for adoptive parents. However, the age difference to the adopted child should correspond to a natural distance, according to the Federal Working Group of the State Youth Welfare Offices.

Normally, a married couple - regardless of gender - can only adopt a child jointly. But single people can also adopt a child.

The adoption agency will check your suitability as an applicant.

Which documents are required?

Documents must be submitted for the suitability determination, which are then checked by the adoption agency. This will be discussed in advance during a consultation.

What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?

The adoption agency does not have a time limit in which to decide on suitability. There is no legal claim to the placement of a child even after a positive suitability test.

Legal basis

Author

Senator for Social Affairs, Youth, Integration and Sport, Bremen

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.

Technically approved by

Senator for Social Affairs, Youth, Integration and Sport, Bremen

Professionally released on

23.12.2022

Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6Plus)

No competent authority found

Please enter your location.