Pregnant Women

Know You Have Options

When you’re faced with an unintended pregnancy, it can be overwhelming trying to figure out what to do or where to turn.

At JFS, our staff of professional and compassionate pregnancy counselors will help you explore your options free of charge and free of bias or judgment.

A counselor will be personally involved to:

• Answer your questions along the way

• Discuss your options and help you decide what choice feels right for you

• Offer unbiased professional guidance and support

• Explain the adoption process

• Be available for you throughout and after your pregnancy

• Help you plan for life after the placement

As you consider your choices, we understand your thoughts and feelings may change from day to day, even minute to minute. It can be confusing to sort out the advice of friends and family. Know that you're not alone. We can help you weigh your options in order to make the right decision for you and your baby.

If You're Considering Adoption

JFS Adoption will help you select an adoptive family that makes you feel comfortable and secure in your decision.

We have a waiting list of loving families who have been thoroughly screened and approved for adoption. All our home studies include references, plus health, education, and financial histories. Should you decide to move forward with an adoption plan, rest assured that you have the right to choose the adoptive family.

 

Feel Good About Your Choices

This is an important and difficult decision. JFS can help you whether you are 1 week or 9 months pregnant — even if your baby has already been born.

Considering adoption takes courage, compassion, and love. There are no easy answers, but JFS Adoption is a knowledgeable and dependable resource for your unanswered questions. We are here to listen and help.

For more information, please refer to our Pregnant Women FAQs below.

Pregnant Women FAQs

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Our Adoption Services

Waiting Families

Your Baby's Potential Parents

JFS maintains a list of loving families waiting to adopt a child. All individuals are thoroughly screened and approved to adopt. You can read about some of these wonderful people below.

amy and andrew

Amy & Andrew

Hello, and thank you for considering us to be the parents of your child. We are full of joy and excitement about adopting a child and growing our family. Our relationship has strengthened day by day over the past 10 years of our marriage, and we are more than ready to share our resources and unconditional love with a child and give them the support and guidance they need at every milestone in life. There are also grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins (ages 5 months to 8 years), extended family, diverse friends near and far, and a cat named Yuki waiting to meet and love your/our child. The two of us first met through our shared backgrounds in the arts. Andrew lived in Japan for 5 years and is currently a sales manager in the construction industry. Amy works from home as a manuscript editor for a medical journal and is learning Spanish. Besides arts and culture, both of us love to be outdoors hiking, fishing, walking at the river, having beach vacations, or visiting parks and gardens. We laugh a lot and spend a lot of time with our families. It’s a habit of ours to sit down together after work and catch up on the day. We can’t wait to do this with our child sitting there with us!

Alex and Brad Engaged - 16c

Alex & Brad

Thank you for considering us as you are making this decision for yourself and your child. We are excited to welcome a child into our home and our strong support system. We live in Richmond, 10 minutes away from Alex’s parents and two of her sisters, both of whom were adopted. These adoptions helped to shape our beautiful, multiracial family. We are committed to speaking openly about adoption and honoring the choice that you made for your child. We will provide a loving, fun-filled household. We often go on walks in the woods and spend time at the family beach house in Virginia Beach. Brad enjoys hiking, basketball, and video games. Alex is very active in a neighborhood church. She also gardens and plays soccer with the neighbors’ kids in our front yard. Across the street from our house is an elementary school with several playgrounds and a basketball court, and we can walk to a duck pond a few blocks away. We each care deeply about being kind and gentle. As parents, we will model standing up for oneself and also asking for help. We want our child to develop a strong connection to the community and a strong sense of self-worth. Thank you so much for considering us as adoptive parents for your child.

Claude and Cameron

Remone & Cameron

We are a young couple looking to expand our family through adoption. We have a large extended family that is excited for a new family member. Our hobbies are shopping, traveling, and visiting family. Remone enjoys listening to music, shopping, and visiting friends. Cameron enjoys going to new places to eat and cooking. Our family also includes are sweet dog, Lola. Remone works in human resources for a non-profit that helps under-served families across Eastern Virginia. Cameron works in law enforcement and enjoys his job very much. We look forward to growing our family through adoption. Thank you so much for considering us!

Jennifer Sperberg Pic for JFSA Waiting Families Page JFS Richmond Virginia Jewish Family Services

Jennifer

I'm ready and excited to create my family through adoption! My support system is vast and so encouraging as I move toward welcoming a child into our home. My work is the advertising and marketing agency I own, and I'm an advertising professor at one of the great universities in Richmond, where I was born and raised. Travel generates amazing memories, whether in the Outer Banks, the mountains of Colorado, or abroad. I'm fluent in Spanish and love to practice. I have been blessed with an amazing, large, extended family, a special pup named Rio, and love nothing more than hanging out with my niece and twin nephews! My friends truly are family to me, and their kids bring me so much joy, attending their events and supporting their dreams. My greatest hope is to build a life of loving support for a child's needs and dreams and watch them grow into the special being they are meant to be.

Stephanie and Justin

Stephanie & Justin

Hello! We have enjoyed a strong and loving marriage for 16 years. It has been our dream to have children join our family. There is nothing we want more than to love and nurture children so they can realize their fullest happiness and potential. We are both self employed and enjoy a flexible schedule that allows us to do most of our work from home. Together we operate our business that provides supportive services to adults with intellectual disabilities. Through our work, we have learned to be even better versions of ourselves. We are tremendously accepting of others and we appreciate the special characteristics that makes each person unique. We have a wonderfully supportive family, which includes very eager grandparents who are waiting to expand their duties to our children! We also have a very special and active relationship with our two nieces and a nephew. They have expressed to us that they would be thrilled to have cousins! Our family also includes dogs and chickens, with plenty of room for everyone to live harmoniously together. We enjoy travel, family gatherings, attending sports and school events for our nieces and nephew, and are always looking forward to trying new things that will create lasting memories. We would be delighted to welcome an infant, child, or siblings into our family. It would be our honor to meet you and plan our family vision together.