Why it’s important: Failing to use adoption sensitive language in a group setting can often lead to people with certain life stories feeling less than or excluded. Adoption is not an overly common experience, but it happens regularly enough that, when addressing a group of 40 or more, statistically speaking you likely have at least […]
In fact, very few women who think about putting up their babies for adoption, or more correctly, making adoption plans for their babies proceed with an adoption. Fundamentally, placing a newborn in an adoptive home requires a firm belief and faith that the adoptive parents can and will provide the child with a loving, secure, […]
In some ways, that is like asking which is better—chocolate or vanilla ice cream. The question suggests that there are only two choices – chocolate or vanilla – national vs. local adoption agencies. As with ice cream, there are other choices. When it comes to adoption, the other choice of an adoption professional is an […]
Not surprising! If you have never put up a baby for adoption, or more correctly, made an adoption plan for a baby, how could you possibly know what to do? Especially, since most of the information you get from your friends is probably wrong or biased toward their personal feelings about adoption. The media does […]
We, at Adoption Attorneys Kirsh & Kirsh, P.C. (“Kirsh & Kirsh”), do not make insurance or Medicaid a requirement for us to help an expectant mother or birth mother give up her baby for adoption, or more correctly, make an adoption plan for her baby. We work with a company that will assist you with […]
Most importantly, contacting Kirsh & Kirsh costs you nothing. Birth parents never pay for Kirsh & Kirsh adoption services. Secondly, and just as importantly, contacting the adoption law firm of Kirsh & Kirsh does not obligate you to proceed with an adoption. We, at Kirsh & Kirsh, understand that most people know very little about […]
Correct. Adoption Attorneys Kirsh & Kirsh, P.C. (“Kirsh & Kirsh”), act as the attorneys for prospective adoptive parents hoping to adopt newborns. In fact, as an ethical matter, Kirsh & Kirsh cannot represent a birth parent and adoptive parents in the same adoption. But, with the exception of giving an expectant mother or birth mother […]
We, at Adoption Attorneys Kirsh & Kirsh, P.C. (“Kirsh & Kirsh”), have arranged adoptions in Indiana for more than 35 years, involving thousands of successful placements. Recently, after having a consent to adoption signed at a hospital, I, Steve Kirsh, went to the birth mother’s nurses’ station to give the nurses the chart copies of […]
The Safe Haven Law in Indiana, codified at Indiana Code § 31-34-2.5, enables a person to leave a child, who is not more than 30 days old, at certain safe places like fire stations and hospital emergency departments without fear of criminal liability for child abandonment or neglect. We, at Adoption Attorneys Kirsh & Kirsh, […]
Firstly, we at Kirsh & Kirsh do not believe that women “give up babies” for adoption. The courageous, loving, and thoughtful expectant mothers and birth mothers, with unplanned or untimely pregnancies, with whom we work, who are not ready for a child or another child, make adoption plans to provide their precious unborn babies or […]
