A home study is not really the study of your home, it's the study of your background. If you are a married couple, they will get a copy of your marriage license. If you've been married previously, copy of your divorce decree. Check out things about your health, make sure you don't have any life threatening or life shortening illnesses. Make sure you don't have a criminal record or accused of child abuse; they'll do a fingerprint check on that. They'll get copies of your tax returns to make sure that you are financially able to take care for the child. Not that you're wealthy or going to live the high life, but that the child isn't going to be on public assistance. They want to make sure that the child is going to be properly provided for. Those are things a mother can't find out for herself. That is what the home study is doing. They are not going to go to your home. They are not going to run a white finger over your refrigerator to see if there's dust there. It's only to make sure that the child is going to go into a safe environment.