INDIANA – This morning is already starting off to be a busy one! We have one baby in the sourthern part of Indiana, we have another baby in the eastern part of Indiana, we have a third potential adoption involving a slightly older child, and then we just found out this morning that yet another […]
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Internet Adoption Advertising — Beware
Prospective adoptive parents and expectant mothers are sometimes tempted to use the internet to create an adoption plans for children (put their “baby up for adoption”). The Indiana Code and the cases interpreting those statutes specify the procedures and requirements which must be followed in order adopt a child. Failure to precisely follow the statutory […]
Indiana Adoption – Pregnant and want to know about adoption?
“I am interested in adoption. I am pregnant and would like to talk to someone please,” said the nervous sounding voice on the other end of the phone. I said, “We can help you and I would happy to sit down with you, in person, to discuss things whenever and wherever it is convenient for […]
Indiana Adoption – Pregnant and want to know about adoption?
“I am interested in adoption. I am pregnant and would like to talk to someone please,” said the nervous sounding voice on the other end of the phone. I said, “We can help you and I would happy to sit down with you, in person, to discuss things whenever and wherever it is convenient for […]
Adoption: My Parents Say I am 22 Years Old and Should be Old Enough To Raise a Baby
Adoption I just met with an expectant mom recently. We will call her “Amy” (not her real name). Amy’s family is not supportive of her adoption plan. They told her that because she is 22-years-old, she should be old enough to raise a baby. Amy asked me if I have many women her age who […]
Adoption, Adoption Reconnections & Confidential Intermediaries
Working in adoption allows us to help adoptees and birth parents reconnect with each other. It is very rewarding to help these people come together. In fact, Jill Kirsh Freeman, Steve & Joel’s sister, works in the office as a court appointed confidential intermediary. Yesterday, while at court, Jill was introduced as an “expert” on […]
Not Old, Just Wise… Part II
Feeling Old Part II – As if it wasn’t bad enough that last Saturday a client of mine told me that I handled the adoption of her sister (whom I assumed was a MUCH younger sister). A few minutes ago, I received an email from a new prospective adoptive parent, for whom I handled HER […]
Adoption – Circle of Life
A recent signing of a consent to adoption illustrated an amazing “circle of life”. We have been working with a wonderful young woman (now 23 years old) whom her parents adopted with our help at her birth. She gave birth to a beautiful little girl yesterday and she signed consents to adoption for her baby today. […]
Written by an adoptive mom who adopted through our office 18 years ago, an essay she describes as the "Meaning of Love"
On May 17, 1993, at 9:00 a.m., a stranger I had never met taught me a lifetime of love. On that day, at that exact hour, a committed 18-year old opened her heart as wide as the heavens themselves and all by herself, changed lives forever. It wasn’t supposed to be that way. Julie and […]
If You Think it is Expensive to Hire an Expert, Try Hiring an Amateur
I know that some prospective adoptive parents choose not to retain our services because our fees are higher than most other adoption professionals. I have said in jest (somewhat) that if you think it is expensive to hire an expert try hiring an amateur! Then a situation like the one that happened today arises. Great […]
