Best Adoption Agency Lansing Near Me

Andrew Frania: I lost my citizenship through adoption; Bethany Christian Services markets the adoption of foreign children without their consent as a white-savior complex. Try living in a world where everyone around you is white, growing up being attacked for being different, stripped of your culture and ethnicity. I fought wars for this country trying to be seen as an equal, but even a Marine Corps uniform doesn't hide who I am. Us foreign adoptees had no choice in giving up our citizenship, it was stolen from us.

Hardy Gail: We we're foster parents they help us get our license. Then we ended up adopting a girl. They help us head over heels through it all. I thank you for helping us get a great blessing in our life. Plus they been there even after the adoption. Thank you Bethany.

Mathew Vainner: This company is not in favor of the children, send kids back to a unfit and unsafe home after the adopting family has done everything and grown the love and shown proof to be proper parents.

Michele Burke: We have been clients of Bethany Christian Services since 2011. We have used their services to both foster and adopt. They have been wonderful to work with. They have always looked out for us, been responsive to our needs, and treated us with great courtesy and respect. Most importantly, they care deeply for the children that they serve.

Dido 0308: Well I see from the other reviews that my family is not the only one having trouble with this agency. My son needs to fight in court and spend thousands of dollars for his child because the woman wants to give it up for adoption and they were not married. The agency which both I and my son spoke with long before the baby was born were told that my son wanted to raise his child. He is not a kid but an older adult. They said they would place the child with adoptive parents anyway because that is what the mother wanted.. Heartbreaking when they knew he wants his child. They never bothered to ever speak to my son to see his side of the story but only took the girls word of everything. her pretending that he kicked her out (it was my home and that is not what happened). These laws for unwed fathers need to be changed and I will be working diligently to do so and to bring to light to the legislators agencies like this with untoward behavior and actions. If I hear one more time about deadbeat dads I will scream. Even when there is a good guy who wants his child he cannot seem to get it because agencies like this encourage lies and deception. Yes, as another reviewer said don't let the "Christian" fool you at all. As a matter of fact the girls family are staunch "Christians" and they have been lying about everything from the beginning and keeping my son from even knowing how his baby was developing. Blocking him at every turn, changing her phone number so he could not reach her so it would look like he didn't care. He went to her siblings home to try to find out how she was and the baby developing and was told they were not allowed to tell him. I imagine as this family has given up children before that they have been heavily coached by this agency. When the agency finally called him to tell him that his baby was born 5 days later even though he had filed the appropriate paperwork, they would not even tell him the exact date the baby was born (because the mother didn't want them to) even though it would end up on paperwork anyway. It is yet another clear sign of how the mother and her family have been emotionally and psychologically abusing my son for over 6 months and it continues by the agency not even filing the correct paperwork when we went to court so it would be delayed again 3 weeks. To further try to manipulate my son the agency told him for the hearing he did not need a lawyer. What a lie that was, I am glad he didn't listen. My son and I feel sorry for the adoptive parents. We tried to stop ahead of time them being hurt but the agency doesn't care as long as they get their money for another baby. In my opinion babies should not be given to the adoptive parents until both parents have signed the rights away. It is unfortunate but if for some reason the judge rules the adoption can go through we will appeal as far as the supreme court if need be. THIIS IS ALSO A WARNING TO ADOPTIVE PARENTS. YOU CANNOT TRUST WHAT THIS AGENCY SAYS. I AM SURE THEY TOLD THESE ADOPTIVE PARENTS THAT ALL WOULD BE WELL. This is very sad for a lot of people because this agency could not be bothered reach out to a known father to see what his thoughts and desires were. Even to have a basic conversation. Their job seems to be to get their client a baby no matter what they have to do. NOTE: THE ORGANIZATIONS RESPONSED TO REVEIWS ARE A WEEK AGO, HOWEVER THE ACTUAL REVIEWS DATE BACK TO A YEAR AGO IF THAT GIVE YOU ANY INDICATION.

Jacob Begley: Absolutely terrible agency. Anyone dealing with these people beware.

Amanda Streyle: The Bethany Christian Services off of Lansing Lake Road has been a sort of teeth pulling experience for our family. I constantly struggle to get emails or phone calls back within a timely manner. Contact with them is months at a time. Ive asked for a new case worker and am the only one reaching out tp get responses. My husband and I wanted to adopt because even though we could have more children quite easily, we wanted to take on a child that had a high likelihood of ageing out of the system instead. Just because we can have more kids doesnt mean thats what we felt pulled to do. We have the money, the time, the extra space, and the want. But Bethany made us feel like obligations. Stating it takes 8 mnths to get licensed. And during these last few months we never once got a call from them...but instead we made every effort to get ahold of them. I would not refer any one to thia company. You will feel left behind and stuck with the frustation of not having communication on whats going on.

Dr iPhone: Don't let the "Christian" fool you. We have been foster parents for many years. This agency is not good. They are incredibly controlling, will move kids around, even separate siblings without notice and before investigating.This has not only been our experience, but as more than decade old veterans, we have heard similar stories from other foster and adoptive parents. WARNING: If you work with these people, be prepared for the emotional roller coaster most foster and adoptive parents fear!When you hear people tell horror stories about foster care and adoption, this is the kind of agency they are talking about. Stick with County DHS for foster care and work with groups like Catholic/Lutheran Services or Child and Family for adoption.

Hope Harden: Everyone that we have talked to throughout our adoption experience has been so extremely helpful and knowledgeable. I am so grateful for Beth our caseworker she has been such a joy to work with. Also a big shout out to Tami and Alivia who have been so kind to my husband and I. We appreciate everyone at adoption associates for helping us find our special little someone. This is by far the best adoption agency in Michigan and would recommend it to anyone considering adopting.

Charis Weigler: We are excited to grow our family through adoption and have been throughly impressed by Adoption Associates during this journey so far. They are professional, caring and extremely knowledgeable.

Chris Sharrock: We looked at a few other agencies and going with adoption associates was one of best choices we ever made. They were advocates for us and for our birth mom. Pro-active. Great communicators. More than once when we needed them, they dropped everything and showed up. Couldn't recommend them more.

Kathryn Fritzler: I wouldn't be a mom today without them! Wonderful and caring staff of professionals.

Constancia Bozzo: Ive worked with child and family for 3 years. And received no help with the childs anger issue's. Or help of any kind. And the caseworker was lazy and didn't want to hear what i had to say and they gave me the runaround..

Wayne Johnson: You have completely screwed over the best person that ever ran Good cheer since Tacky, the man that started it died in a car accident. He helped Tacky successfully move the operation from Howell to Oakland Pontiac Airport. They started out in a small hanger on the east side of the airport and moved several times before finally settling in at Penta Star Aviation. He helped grow the program from several hundred kids to over 16,000 they now serve. He computorized the sign up sheets for both pilots and helpers meking it easy for people to volunteer rather than rely on paper and phone calls. He increased the volunteers 10 fold from what it was. He got both individual pilots and the corporate pilots to volunteer their time and aircraft. He got resturants to donate food for the volunteers both Friday night and Saturday morning. He got major corpoations 1to also donate money. He had the Good Cheer running very well last few years. They never decoded to invite him back this year, and not even a thank you for all the hundreds of hours he spent each year and he has done for over 20 years. You have really made a mistake. All my friends and organizations that I talked into helping I hope they read this and decide to volunteer some place else this year. An organization that appreciates what they volunteer for.

Denise Dalrymple: Great location!