We did a lot of research off and on for several years before we decided to use Lifetime. We are so proud to call ourselves a Lifetime family! I am sure our path isn't out of the ordinary. After spending a couple of years and too many thousands of dollars on unsuccessful infertility treatments, we went back to considering adoption. We decided our goal was to become PARENTS, and adoption was the one path that offered us the best chances of reaching our goal. From the very beginning, Lifetime stood out to us. They always responded promptly to us, and shared more than just pat answers. We never felt they were trying to just rush us off the phone (unlike other places where we got the brush off for no apparent reason). They took the time to explain what to expect, emotionally, logistically, financially -- as well as explained why they were confident we would be successful in their program. We also knew that choosing a Christian organization to work with us was VERY important as we stepped out in faith to follow this calling that God had placed on our hearts. In a nutshell, Lifetime did everything they promised. They walked us through every step, and held our hands through the tricky parts where we started to doubt ourselves. We have a wonderful relationship with our child's birthmother and her family, and we wouldn't have it any other way. We are thrilled to be parents and we know that this was all in God's plan! One of the best parts about Lifetime, that we didn't even realize to look for at first, was the support and services for birthmothers. Lifetime was really there for her to make sure this was what she really wanted. They still provided support for her even after we were home and the adoption was "over." Our child's birthmother was very picky. She wanted to make her own adoption plan and researched before she even chose Lifetime to work with! We are so proud of her and all that she has accomplished! Our adoption truly is a bond of trust that started with us and God, lead to a trust between us and Lifetime, and ended in a trusting relationship with us and birthmother. read more

STAY AWAY! From personal attacks to pushy sales... Our experience with Lifetime Adoptions was extremely disappointing and raised multiple red flags from the very first interaction. The representative we spoke with, Kim, came across as overly pushy and impersonal. The conversation felt scripted rather than genuine, which immediately made us uncomfortable. Despite mentioning that I was at work, she repeatedly insisted on having my camera on, which felt inappropriate and dismissive of my situation. Throughout the call, there was a strong assumption that we had already chosen Lifetime Adoptions, even though we clearly stated we were still exploring agencies to find the right fit. That boundary was repeatedly blown off and ignored, and the conversation continued as if our decision had already been made. When I had asked a question, she seemed insulted that I stopped her to ask a question. This is where another red flag was raised. I had asked about how many clients (waiting families) they had as compared to expecting mothers. The response avoided the question entirely. Instead of providing a clear answer, she focused on how many mothers contact the agency. For prospective adoptive parents making a significant financial commitment, transparency around placement likelihood of adopting a child and wait times is critical. The lack of a direct answer was concerning. The fact she got squirrely around this question, made it seem like Lifetime Adoptions is more about stacking up clients (and there cash) over placement turnarounds. We also asked about open versus closed adoptions. While I understand the agency may specialize in open adoptions, the response we received was dismissive of closed adoptions altogether. When I shared my own personal experience being adopted through a closed adoption, my perspective was completely disregarded and I was told I was "wrong." That felt deeply unprofessional and insensitive. Her dismissive behavior continued on. She went on to tell me that I was wrong and closed adoptions are wrong - completely ignoring my own lived expierence, thoughts, feelings, and reality. Her comments lead to that my own lived experiences being invalid and incorrect. Completely out of line. As the conversation continued, the tone became increasingly uncomfortable. Then to top it off, the blame was shifted onto us. When we raised legitimate concerns and questions, Kim didn't address them--instead, she outright blamed us, as if the red flags we were seeing were somehow our fault. This was unprofessional and completely unacceptable. Adoption is an emotional and significant journey, and we expected a level of empathy, transparency, and respect that simply was not present here for an alleged Christian organization. There is NOTHING Christian about them based off of this interaction. Based on our experience, we would strongly encourage others stay away and to do thorough research and proceed with caution. Don't spend a bunch of money up front because you will be financially stuck in a large pool of clients. Instead, look towards "as services are rendered" agencies first. read more

Fraud! Fraud! Fraud! Terrible company! I'm not sure how they have any good reviews since they have a very low adoption rate. Please be aware they also have different company names. Do your research! They make you sign a contract with a $20,000 deposit (which is non refundable after 72 hours). They never call or reach out to you, unless asking for money of course. They state they are birth-parent driven which basically translates as "Adoptive parents get no support or encouragement." Their way of supporting you is insisting you listen to "required" webinars which are not only repetitive and annoying, but are really just to buy time. If you are not okay with gambling $40,000 (photo shoots, home studies, booklets, etc) please stay far, far away! Especially if you have any filters (ie baby girl/boy, ethnicity, etc). We are very blessed and grateful that we were able to expand our family due to our faith. It is our duty to make sure other adoptive parents are aware of what they are signing up for. If I can save just one family then I have done my job. read more

We we're with lifetime for 1 year. You will pay them 20 thousand at minimum. After that they will only push self matching. They will not update you at all on whether or not your being shown or tell you how many times you were shown. If you update your profile you will not be shown during the 3 days it takes to update. Anyone who self matches they will claim as a successful lifetime adoption. They couldn't even get our preferences correct after multiple emails. The only time they message you is to ask you to increase the amount your willing to spend on the adoption. Do not go with a big agency like this they are only interested in your $. We went with a consultant and adopted within a month. Message me for more info. read more

I am sure that part of our experience with Lifetime was due to a decrease in available adoption situations and a large number of domestic waiting families due to the pandemic but I never felt like they provided much direct support or guidance for waiting families outside of recorded webinars. We went through 4 adoptive family coordinators in our time with them. Most were perfectly nice but none of which could even pretend to remember who we were during our regularly scheduled monthly phone calls. There is complete lack of transparency in whether your profile is being presented as it is their policy to withhold that information. They do not give preference to families who have been waiting long periods with them or who experience a disruption unlike most adoption agencies. We waited 1.5 years with them with very open preferences with only one known potential match before we decided to sign with a consulting firm upon which we matched within 48 hrs of our profile going live and we brought our beautiful baby home a few weeks later. I know that our short wait with our consulting firm is atypical but they gave us an average time to match of 6 months for their clients at the time, lifetime told us 2 years but I believe they are now saying 3 years to their new clients. Knowing what I know now, I would not sign with Lifetime again nor would I recommend them based on the current domestic adoption situation. read more

We had to cancel due to covid making it hard financially...after we have already given them over 50k. They basically told us sorry to hear that but Our policy states if you can't continue after so long you are terminated. Covid pandemic isn't a typical time, and to not even refund us anything or let us stay on, they just gladly let us go. My personal opinion - Don't ever pay up front in full for this process. Pay as you go per service. There are lots of places that do that. Because you never know what's going to happen long term. read more

Working with Lifetime Adoption has been a privilege! We easily and successfully adopted a sweet baby boy. The staff are warm, friendly, professional and always available. They provide tons of helpful resources to help educate your family on all stages and processes of the adoption experience. Your coordinators walk every step of the way with you and we appreciated their personal knowledge and assistance! read more

This company has smooth salespeople that convinced us that we would adopt in no time. 4 years later we are broke, with no baby and no leads. Their friendliness disappeared the second they got our money , and whenever we call for an update they act like we are bothering them . read more

Our Story: After 4 years of unexplained infertility we felt led toward adoption. A friend of a friend had successfully completed an adoption through Lifetime and after conducting our own research we too contracted with Lifetime. After a two year wait without the slightest hint of a match we discovered we were pregnant during which time Lifetime agreed to place our contract on hold for nine months. When our daughter was two months old we paid the fee to have our contract reactiviated and resubmitted profiles and a video that reflected our family of three. We requested and received two-6 month extensions. During this time we were pleasantly surprised to discover that they requested additional copies of our profile which we hoped meant increased interest in our family and that after all of this time a match would finally be made. However as we stand at the closure of our third year contracting with Lifetime we still have not had even the briefest glimpse of a possible match. Rather than continue to live our lives in limbo we have made the very difficult decision not to request a third renewal therefore forfeiting the nearly $20,000 we paid to Lifetime for their "service" along with our hope of expanding our family any further. As such we would like this opportunity to share our experience with Lifetime. Pros: They successfully match expectant birth parents with prospective adoptive families (unless you are one of the families for whom they do not--please see below). They take pride in their structured approach which they share will lead to a successful adoption as long as you explicitly follow their advice (unless you are a family who follows all of their recommendations and wait for years without success--please see below). They contract with hundreds of families at a time which provides them a wealth of experience (unless this number is too high--please see below). Cons: There are a larger number of prospective adoptive families who are unsuccessful with Lifetime than we were led to believe. We are one of four couples of whom we are personally aware who waited years (one family waited two, the rest of us three) without matching through Lifetime. The other three couples found success elsewhere. We began tracking the Lifetime website in our region to celebrate families who had matched or adopted in attempt to keep our hopes up (December 2015 to March 2018). During this time about of the families from our region disappeared from the website without ever being noted as "matched" or "adopted". Our friends fall in this category as will we. While families may be removed due to divorce, illness, because they no longer want to adopt, or because of personal details as related to an adoption are not able to post their success; however, there are also families who allowed their extended contracts to lapse because they found success elsewhere or chose not to wait years and years for something that may never come to be. There are numerous positive reviews about Lifetime online from families who found success with Lifetime's formula. However, there are families for whom it does not which Lifetime fails to acknowledge may also be the result of their formula. Lifetime often responds to families who post negative reviews indicating a lack of understanding on the part of the family in regard to the contract, the family's "decision not to accept a match that was within noted preferences", or as they do in our case, place the blame on a changed family dynamic (the number of opportunities Lifetime presented to us as a family of 2 and as a family of 3 have been exactly the same--zero). We find this demonstrates a lack of humility we find to be disappointing from a company that claims to hold Christ at the center of their work. Domestic adoptions are declining. In 2014, only 18,000 infants under the age of two were placed for adoption. One of the nation's largest adoption agencies continues to grow overall even as the number of adoptions it facilitated dropped from 1,980 in 2010 to fewer than 1,300 in 2016. This speaks to the ever increasing interest in families wishing to start or grow their family through adoption. However, it also speaks to the increasing inability of adoption organizations to meet the needs of their clients. Despite this they continue to accept money from susceptible families who want nothing other than a child to love even when they know there is a probable chance they will walk away empty handed. Ultimately Lifetime is a business. While they seek to match birth parents with prospective adoptive families, their ultimate goal is to stay in business. As a result they send a very persuasive message to vulnerable families. To those who benefit from this business the message is a blessing, but please be aware there are a number of families like ours who pay tens of thousands of dollar and years of waiting who have nothing to show in return. read more

What a blessing Lifetime Adoption Center is to our community! The tireless passion and efforts of Mardie and all of her staff, is the backbone to Lifetime's success. With each individual adoption, the Lifetime Adoption Center staff, works with the same love, care and commitment to the entire family's success, that they would have, if going through the process for themselves. So needless to say, the newly formed family's, become extended family members of the LAC family! I encourage you, through prayer, and in hearing or reading about Lifetime's countless adoption successes, to consider calling them in your quest for bringing the blessing of a child into your life! A little someone, is waiting for you! read more

I think it's hysterical that so many negative reviews have been deleted. Bottom line: DO NOT waste your money! I personally know TEN families that have been completely sideswiped and have lost their money to these people. We waited six years and poured thousands of dollars into profiles, home studies, etc with NO results. They always told us that we were not praying enough or that it wasn't the right time. I spoke to actual adoptive parents of lifetime that adopted children and one told me that their birth mom received 200 profiles in the mail!!!!!! The birth mom chose a family from the first batch and threw the other packets away. No wonder we didn't get a baby if our profiles are being trashed by a birth mom. That is way too many profiles and very overwhelming. I went through numerous coordinators and they would change without me even knowing it. I had one tell me that I needed to offer more money to the birth mom and then I would get a baby soon. I offered $5000 plus and guess what!? No baby from them. These people destroyed my chances of having another biological child because I was too old after waiting SIX years. Still no kid from them. Please find other alternatives such as foster care or other reputable agencies that don't require full payment up front. They exist. Do your research! Update since I am unable to reply to Mardie. For the other readers, just to clarify, I actually did adopt ON MY OWN. I sought out other avenues and was able to get a baby. My adoption had nothing to do with this agency. This was clearly something I did 100% on an individual basis. I originally paid extra money ($1500-$1800) to specify gender. I later opened up my preferences to include both genders. It is the agency's responsibility to manage cases in a way that benefits waiting families, especially those who have been waiting 1-2 years. We waited SIX years. A friend of mine was also involved with this agency. She and her husband waited 4-5 years before being dropped. Guess what happened to them? I found them a baby too through private means as well. We are a great family-financially set, a SAHM, and a work from home dad. Many things could have been done to help us find a match years ago. read more

Our personal journey with Lifetime was wonderful! It was a five-star experience for us, and we adopted in the length of a pregnancy from start to finish. Would highly recommend to actively/spiritually Christian, heterosexual couples looking to adopt. (And from what I can see, it seems that black and biracial families may often have a particularly smooth journey to matching and adopting through this agency. I very much appreciate their clear efforts to reach out to families of color to be among their hopeful adoptive families.) I'm only giving four stars because I have some ideological differences - some of the messaging can seem problematic (I.e. they send you a book that they send to moms considering adoption, and I had a lot of issues with it - it's certainly not unbiased reading material!- and they are also one of the agencies that force you to start the online profile with 'Dear Birthmother', which I found frustrating .) That being said - ultimately, once you're actually working with them, they seem to treat all their clients - placing moms and hopeful adoptive families- with respect and kindness, and I do truly feel like their heart is in the right place, even if some of the messaging can seem slightly behind the times. They are an agency that requires the full fee upfront - I was very worried about this initially but honestly given how smooth our adoption journey was, it was a blessing to only have had to worry about it when we started the journey, and not to have to continue to lay out funds to Lifetime along the way! (you do have to work with an attorney as well,so you will owe legal fees along the way, but you only pay Lifetime once.) Another thing is that our profile was shown many many times each month which I really appreciated. During the waiting months, it was just great to know that if we weren't matched, it wasn't for a lack of women knowing about us, it was just because the right woman hadn't seen us yet. Ultimately, I benefited from others telling me honest yet overall positive words about Lifetime when we were trying to decide on an agency, so I figured I would share just this fully honest review to hopefully help someone else. There is no perfect agency, but Lifetime is exactly who they say they are, and so if you are similar to us in some key ways, you might find that Lifetime is the right fit for you as well. We will be forever grateful to them. read more

What an amazing agency! Mardie, Heather, and Libby all personally walked with us through our very fast and wild adoption journey. We met with them on a Monday, the next Monday my husband left the country on a 2 week mission trip. The afternoon Scott left, a birth mom contacted Lifetime about getting information on us. Less than two weeks later, Jordan-a precious 3 month old- was in our home. I met my husband at the airport with his son. Nothing like using satellite phones to Africa, that kept cutting out, to explain to your husband that he had just become a father. I loved that the Lifetime staff was there through the flurry of paperwork and phone calls while I navigated the road to parenthood. This agency takes such great care of each couple, each single adult, and each birth parent. They want what's best for the child, which is why we wanted to work with them. They are such an amazing example of loving people through God's eyes and being His hands and feet here on Earth. I can't say enough about them. read more

Lifetime Adoption is a wonderful organization and I am extremely glad that we decided to go with them! We did a lot of research into which agency was right for us and Lifetime got great reviews and seemed right for us. We did wait longer than usual (3 years) and had two failed matches before we had the blessing of bringing our twin daughters home. Lifetime was there to walk us through heartache and celebrate with us as we built our family. Because we had been matched a total of three times, I had the pleasure of working with several of Lifetime's coordinators and they were all incredibly compassionate and professional. They gave us great wisdom during our journey and we could not be more grateful! read more

My husband and I have had an amazing experience through Lifetime Adoption Center. Everything from the first phone call all the way through! We could ask as many questions as we wanted, and they genuinely cared! They were very upfront about the fees and expectations, and everything promised, was delivered. We matched with our birth parents in 5 months and would consider our adoption process one of the best experiences of our lives! I can just rave about Lifetime Agency, and am grateful we found them! -JoLynn, WI- read more

We had such a wonderful experience working with Lifetime Adoption! Every single person we worked with on their team is amazing, caring and incredibly supportive. They offer you every opportunity to learn about all the various aspects of adoption, while guiding you professionally through the process. They have mastered the ability to handle such an emotional and often times, traumatic experience, ethically and with the utmost respect to all involved, from birth families to adoptive families. Highly recommend. read more

From our initial inquiry to our adoption (six months), Lifetime Adoption was professional, knowledgeable, dedicated and caring. We followed Lifetime's recommendations closely - they are the experts! Each team member is attentive and kind and we could not have been happier with our experience. We highly recommend Lifetime Adoption! read more

There are no words to describe how much we love Lifetime! They are AMAZING! They definitely walk with you every step of the way. From the day our profile was active until we held our baby girl in our arms was only a couple of months. I have ZERO doubt that God led us to the caring, devoted, and compassionate hands of the ladies at Lifetime! Actually we are thinking about signing back up with Lifetime for baby number 2! We love you, Lifetime! read more

Lifetime adoption has been there for us from the very beginning! They are true to their word. They were encouraging and always listened. It was stressful during our wait but the staff showed great support to us. When we finally got the call that our son was born, they were more than thrilled for us. We are home now, adjusting to our new life and the staff continues to check in on us. They even provided counseling to our birth mother free of charge. If we should choose to adopt again, we will only use lifetime adoption. If you are considering placing your child for adoption or are considering adoption, I highly recommend Lifetime adoption!!! read more

My husband and I used Lifetime Adoptions to assist us with finding a birth mother in our adoption process. We signed up with Lifetime in December of 2009, and by February 2010 we were receiving calls with interested birth mothers. We found a perfect match and in April of 2010 our beautiful son was born. Lifetime provided support throughout the entire process and helped make our adoption experience an amazing wonderful experience. I highly recommend Lifetime Adoptions to any couple looking for assistance in locating a birth mother. read more

Don't believe everything you are told. Read the contract to know what you are NOT paying for. They preach a lot of birth parent outreach, but that did not apply to OUR birth parent! They rely on YOU to do things THEY should be doing and will black list you amongst other staff if you don't agree with everything they say... even when your advice comes from people with Masters degrees in Social Work (unlike the staff at Lifetime). They failed us in positive and encouraging communication with our birth family. They failed us in having our preferences updated within 4 months of when we changed them. They failed us in setting up support for us while we flew blind at the hospital in an emergency situation (not knowing any resources available to us). Monthly teleconferences are NOT convenient for working families and are often more depressing than anything and when you have questions, get ready to NOT have them answered. By the end of our journey, they proved to be about the almighty dollar. Bottom line. read more