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Adoption
Adoption is a loving alternative to abortion and parenting. We are adopted into God's family and many throughout the Scriptures were adopted beginning with Moses. Everybody wins in adoption. The adoptive parents, many times, have been married for more than 5 years and have been through costly fertility procedures and many times they experience miscarriages. They desperately want a child and feel that their family is made complete by the gift of this precious child. The child wins because he/she is placed in a loving stable environment, provided with all the physical, financial, emotional and spiritual things needed by every child. The birthmother wins because she has real peace of mind knowing her baby has been placed in a home with parents of her choosing. She is confident she has provided all the things she wants for her baby through an adoption plan and then she is able to achieve the goals she has for herself and her future. For many birthmothers, this will be the most important decision she will ever make in her lifetime. The pregnant girl/woman is already a mother of the baby inside her womb. As a parent, she has the responsibility of making the best plan for her baby. She has many questions as she looks at parenting and adoption. We can help her look at her circumstances and decide what God's plan is concerning her and her baby. She must put her baby first when making this decision, and for some that is a very hard thing to do. Adoption is a wonderful choice for a birthmother who finds herself in an unplanned pregnancy. Birthmothers have various reasons why they are unable to parent. Most want a better life for their baby, and adoption will provide that. Many times the birthfather is not around anymore and there would be no father image for their baby. Some birthmothers feel they are not emotionally or physically able to handle a baby at this time in their life, and almost always, finances are a major reason for choosing adoption. When a birthmother chooses adoption, we refer her to professionals that we work with in our area. We believe that birthmothers should be held in high esteem and treated with honor and respect. Attorneys who have integrity and promote a relationship between the adoptive parents and birthmother will meet the desires of all concerned. Many different relationships can develop between the birthmother and adoptive parents. In "closed" adoption no information is given to the birthmother about the baby or adoptive parents and the adoptive parents have no information about the birthmother. In "open" adoption, the birthmother actually chooses the adoptive parents. She has the option of not only looking at a profile of the adoptive parents, but she can have telephone communication with them as well as meeting them personally. We are an advocate for the birthmother. The first time she enters our doors we join her and walk with her through her entire pregnancy, placement and post-adoption. We can refer you to professionals who can guide you in allowing your child to be adopted by a loving couple. The birthmother knows we will always be there for her, especially after the birth and placement, because that's when she needs us the most.
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