{"id":22428,"date":"2025-02-06T15:36:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T21:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ccano.org\/?p=22428"},"modified":"2025-02-06T15:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T21:37:34","slug":"adoption-services-helps-couple-start-their-forever-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccano.org\/blog\/adoption-services-helps-couple-start-their-forever-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Adoption Services Helps Couple Start Their Forever Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22429\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22429\" class=\"wp-image-22429 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ccano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Dugas-family-2024-Adoption-story-480x586.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"586\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toni and Lane with their son Dominic and baby daughter Sarah.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When Lane and Toni Dugas were contacted regarding the potential adoption placement of their daughter Sarah, they were eager to let their six-year-old son Dominic know about the new addition. When Toni shared the news with Dominic, he excitedly stated, \u201cLet me go tell Dad!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The joy and enthusiasm in the Dugas household were undeniably contagious. The couple had been working with Catholic Charities\u2019 Adoption Services to adopt Sarah for about 18 months. Adoption Services is a full-service program that seeks to<br \/>\nlink children of all ages to their forever families. Although Sarah\u2019s adoption was closed, where the birth parents are not in contact with the adoptive parents, there is always flexibility later to make it open if everyone is in agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Toni and Lane had struggled to start a family for quite some time prior to the open adoption of Dominic through Catholic<br \/>\nCharities, which took about two years. They first worked with a fertility institute, which became cost prohibitive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a good fit for us. They try to help you get pregnant at all costs. It didn\u2019t make sense to me. If you have a child, you should provide a good environment and not be in debt from fertility treatments. We wanted to provide a stable<br \/>\nenvironment for our family in which they could flourish,\u201d Toni said.<\/p>\n<p>After looking into other options, Toni and Lane began giving adoption real consideration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe came to Catholic Charities and liked how the protocol worked. They try to keep the baby and mom together, offer<br \/>\ncounseling and support for mom so when she decides to do adoption, it is really what she wants to do. We felt strongly about<br \/>\nthat. It mattered how the parents felt about their decision. We see the child as such a gift, and we want the parents who gave us this gift to be happy and feel satisfied about their decision,\u201d Toni said.<\/p>\n<p>For parents in similar situations, Toni and Lane recommend keeping an open mind, trusting the process, and to be comfortable with waiting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDanna and Cindy at Adoption Services were knowledgeable and careful about each step in the process. Concern for the birth mom and the adoptive family were always their main priority. The waiting isn\u2019t easy, especially when it\u2019s close to getting a baby placed with you. But there is comfort knowing that you are dealing with an agency that has your best interest in mind,\u201d said Lane.<br \/>\nFor more information, visit ccano.org\/adoption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Lane and Toni Dugas were contacted regarding the potential adoption placement of their daughter Sarah, they were eager to let their six-year-old son Dominic know about the new addition&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":22429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Adoption Services Helps Couple Start Their 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