Wondering about Adoption? Find out more about your other pregnancy options
Life for Kids: an agency specializing in birthmother care
THE CHOICE IS YOURS....no doubt about that.
But many women know very little about the adoption choice
for dealing with an unplanned pregnancy.
Adoption choices and the rights of birthmothers have changed
a lot over the years. Maybe you have some misconceptions, too.
ADOPTION IS A CHOICE YOU MAKE TODAY
FOR YOUR BABY'S TOMORROW.
It is a brave, life-affirming choice. It requires backbone, courage,
determination to choose a good future for your child
at a time when you may not be certain you can do so yourself.
It is your way, under hard circumstances, to demonstrate love to your child
and offer your baby a future and hope.
DID YOU KNOW? *a woman can choose ongoing contact with an adoptive family?
*a woman may select and then choose to meet the family she
wishes to raise her child?
*a woman can choose to receive pictures and letters about her
child over the years?
*a woman who is placing a child into a loving family she has
chosen also gets to choose the amount of information she tells
the adoptive family?
FORMS OF ADOPTION YOU MAY CHOOSE:
CLOSED ADOPTION
Non-identifying information is shared with no expectation of contact with the child
or the adoptive family. A woman still gets to choose the family into which she will
place her child.
SEMI-OPEN ADOPTION
Non-identifying information is shared: pictures, letters and gifts can be periodically
exchanged through the adoption agency. A woman chooses and then can meet the
adoptive family.
OPEN ADOPTION
In addition to choosing and meeting an adoptive family for the baby, open contact
is maintained directly between the birth family and the adopting family.
THE LIFE IS PRECIOUS. THE CHOICE IS YOURS.
A birthmother counselor is waiting to speak with you. Send an e-mail now:
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