{"id":2355,"date":"2020-08-31T14:43:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T14:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heartofadoptions.com\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2024-03-04T14:12:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T19:12:46","slug":"covid-19-and-adoption-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartofadoptions.com\/covid-19-and-adoption-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 and Adoption in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

The adoption journey is never easy. It\u2019s always an emotional experience. However, amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, e-learning, stay-at-home orders, and court closings, both birth parents and couples hoping to grow their family through adoption<\/a> in 2020 face uniquely different circumstances than others have experienced in the past.<\/p>\n

On average, just over 100,000 adoptions take place in the United States each year. This means that since the state-wide lockdowns began in March, there should have been around 54,000 adoptions. While we don\u2019t have the real-time numbers of adoptions completed during this past six-month period, it\u2019s certainly lower than in previous years.<\/p>\n

Heart of Adoptions, Inc<\/a> is working in various ways to support both adoptive families and women facing an unplanned pregnancy in Florida<\/a> during these strange times. Most of our staff are now working remotely, however, we still have members of the team in at least one of our offices every day.<\/p>\n

Several Ways Our Agency is Working Around COVID-19<\/strong><\/p>\n