Abby's One True Gift Adoptions

A disgusting and vile agency that only cares about making money. Our experience with them has been absolutely awful. Stay far, far away from them.

They’ve left a response to my review here but I would like it to be known that we tried working it out with them and they quit responding to my communication and completely cut me off while also cheating us out of money and lying to us to get us to match in the first place, so their response here is just for show because they refuse to even talk to me. And they left us to do our own case work and try to salvage everything on our own when the birth mom lost favor in their eyes and was treated poorly. There, there are more details for you.

You have a rating of 1.7 stars. Your company is a selfish, money hungry business that preys on vulnerable mothers, babies, and families. You should be ashamed of yourselves honestly instead of trying to save face by responding to my review.

Believe the awful reviews here, I have no doubt they’re all true. My $12,000 loan I’m stuck with is proof enough.

Abby's One True Grift doesn't even deserve this one star. We couldn’t have had a worse experience working with this for-profit agency. Just getting our profile live was a pain, and we discovered after many months that they had a lot of our information wrong (ex. wanting a closed adoption vs the open adoption we actually wanted). After we finally matched with a birth mother and they got their money, the agency seemed to become even more unhelpful and actively worked against us continuing on. While we were seemingly building a strong relationship with the birth mother and even went halfway across the country to meet her in person, towards the end of her pregnancy she stopped communicating with us entirely. After a quick Google search of her social media (something I had avoided as to give her privacy) I was able to put the pieces together that she had lied about the paternity of the baby, the gestational age of the baby, given us fake or altered documentation of ultrasounds and doctor’s visits, lied about her former pregnancies (three other children placed for adoption vs the stillbirths she claimed to have) among multiple other falsehoods. After I presented my findings to the agency their only response was “Well, what do you want to do next?” and “oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that we followed up on those doctor’s appointments and she never went.” Our world was rocked, all of our life savings were gone, and we had no one to turn to except for a lawyer. Their paperwork is just good enough that you get screwed no matter the outcome. Had they done any amount of background check they would have easily seen that this birth mother was not actually interested in adoption. Had they actually followed up with doctor’s appointments or ultrasounds they would have at least seen the contradicting due dates and raised a red flag. Even getting back what money we could from them was a hassle full of excuses. If you are wanting to adopt, please go ANYWHERE else.

You will get matched early. You will send them $10,000. Heaven forbid the match falls through, once they have your $, they will ghost you and try to match another family to get their money.

I should have posted this years ago but didn't until finding our paperwork from 2010 while scanning old files. We started off with a great process and much communication and were matched quickly with a birthmother. Things looked like they were going well with all of the conversations we were having with birth-mom. No reason to think there was a problem. We sent in our payment and soon after we were notified that birth-mom changed her mind and wasn't putting the child up for adoption at birth. We were informed they had not spoke with her for several weeks prior to getting our money. This was important information that, had we known this we may/probably would have reconsidered our decision. Instead, they gladly took our money and then shortly afterward told us the adoption was over. They refunded all but $4000 of our charges and proceeded to quote the "legal terms" in the agreement that we signed. This made me feel even more that they knew this was wrong and were just hiding behind their contract. We would never recommend this place and after just re-investigating them to post this review, it looks like similar things have happened to many others. I hope they get shutdown so they can't take advantage of and hurt anyone else.

We were matched quickly and had great communication until we paid. Then nothing. A month before the due date and there was no birth plan in place with the birth mother. After the birth, the agency did nothing to help, facilitate, or guide us as the baby was born early. Adoption ended up falling through and it was our fault. When my husband called to voice his concerns they told us he was yelling and cussing and inappropriate on the call (I was sitting next to him the whole time and no such thing happened). We had to have money to them within 72-hours of a match, but it took them almost 8 weeks to refund us when we chose to go elsewhere.