Adoption Services
Adoptions in Saskatchewan are governed by The Adoption Act.
In the past 20 years we have seen many changes in adoption.
There is a growing trend toward "openness" in adoption
- adoption where birth parents have an active role in the selection
of the adoptive parents. Since 1989, Saskatchewan Community Resources
has offered "open" adoptions as
an option. Openness allows for varying degrees of contact and
information sharing between the birth parent and adoptive parents
as the adopted child grows up.
In the past, adoptions were "closed" because the parties
involved in the adoption only received non-identifying information
about the other party. There is now a growing recognition of the
importance of background information and history. There is a recognition
of the adopted person's need to search for their "roots"
and of the birth parent's need to search for the child placed for
adoption.
Saskatchewan Community Resources offers programs in domestic
adoption, assisted adoption, intercountry
adoption, and post-adoption.
For further information about adoption, contact your nearest Community
Resources office or
the provincial adoption consultant at:
Saskatchewan Community Resources
12th floor, 1920 Broad Street
Regina, Saskatchewan S4P 3V6
(306)787-5698
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Adoption Links:
Adoption Council of Canada
Adoption Support
Centre of Saskatchewan |