LDS FAMILY SERVICES

'LDS Family Services' is a private nonprofit corporation owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It offers members of the church and others adoption services, foster child placement services, marital and family counseling, addiction and drug dependency counseling, general psychotherapy, and counseling and other services to women or girls who are pregnant and unmarried. All services are offered to all, regardless of religion, and some are free of change.
In 1919 the organization was organized as the 'Relief Society Social Service Department' by Amy B. Lyman, an official in the church's Relief Society. In 1969, the organization was renamed 'Unified Social Services'. In 1973, the organization became a corporation separate from the church's Relief Society and renamed 'LDS Social Services'. In the late 1990s, the name was again changed to LDS Family Services.
LDS Family Services currently has 62 offices located in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. Staff must have a minimum of a master's degree in behavioural sciences.
As a corporation affiliated with the LDS Church, LDS Family Services emphasizes to pregnant women and girls the need to avoid abortion and, as an alternative, to consider marrying the biological father or, if that is not possible, to allow the child to be adopted by a married couple. LDS Family Services will not allow its services to facilitate adoption of a child by single parents, unwed couples, or same-sex partners.

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★ C. Ross Clement (1992). "Social Services" in ''Encyclopedia of Mormonism'' (New York: Macmillan) p. 1386–1387.

★ ''Encyclopedia of Latter-Day Saint History'', p. 1157.

External links

★ LDS Family Services : official webpage