Birth Parents

Many birth parents see the paperwork that needs to be filled out for adoption and begin to feel very overwhelmed. In Utah, part of the paperwork is a packet called the non-identifying information. In other states, this same information may have a slightly different name. This packet is many pages long, and asks detailed questions […]

Tori and Wish came to visit CEO and Founder, Kathy Kunkel, to give her hugs and kisses. In the most heartfelt manner, Josh and Heather expressed to Kathy how much Act of Love means to their family and how grateful they are to Act of Love for touching so many lives and helping 1000’s of

“By 20 weeks, we started doing conference calls and Skype calls every month or so, sometimes every two weeks.  I had exactly half of my pregnancy to get to know John and Shauna, and to get an understanding of the adoption process. Every time I talked to John and Shauna, I became more comfortable with

“When I was 12 weeks pregnant, we made a loose decision to at least go to an adoption agency and see what our options were. We came the conclusion that we were ready to make it work, but we were not willing to put a child through all of our personal and separate issues that we just

Act of Love Adoption Agency in Utah gets to work with many amazing birth parents. We were so touched by Rachel and Jason’s story that they agreed to let us share it. The following few blog posts will be excerpts from their story. “When I found out I was pregnant, my boyfriend and I had

When Hannah left home for the first time to go away to college, her family did not anticipate that she would come home at Christmas break pregnant. This shook the entire family. They never expected something like this to happen to their family. Hannah had younger siblings and they were confused by the situation as

Rhonda was in a very difficult place. She had lost her job and had no family around to help her. She had just gotten an eviction notice for her apartment and had no way to buy food. Rhonda knew that it was only a matter of time before Child Protective Services was called in to

Brandy placed a baby for adoption with Act of Love Adoption Agency in Utah when she was 16. Now, 15 years later, her own daughter, Sadie, was pregnant. They didn’t find out Sadie was pregnant until she was almost 7 months along. Brandy knew that adoption had been a very positive experience for her, but

Carlene, Tarilee and everyone we’ve worked with at A Act of Love – As of last Thursday, June 27, 2013, our daughter officially became ours! We finalized her adoption that day. It was a fantastic day. I was the lawyer for the adoption, and we were joined by our parents’ and our two boys. It