Adoption home studies are provided for prospective parents adopting from Eastern Europe, South America, Asia, or other countries providing adoptions. Lutheran Family Services of Virginia will work with all qualified Virginia residents regardless of gender, disability, racial, ethnic, or religious background.
Services are available to married couples, singles, divorced, or widowed persons.
It should be noted, however, that some countries prohibit single persons from adopting. Families may begin the home study process when preliminary paperwork is on file in the adoption office. Adoptive parents will attend a parent workshop to learn about the many complex issues in parenting adoptive children. LAN is the largest adoption network in the world, with agencies located in nearly all of the 48 contiguous United States, plus the Virgin Islands. Home studies are required by the Commonwealth of Virginia and ensure a stable environment for the adopted child.