Pregnant? Want to know about placing a baby for adoption? Here is a simple step-by-step guide that outlines the basics of this process. DISCLAIMER: Understand first off that this step-by-step guide is a basic view of how adoptions typically occur and there are a multitude of different factors that could change the adoption process to […]
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A Message From Rhonda
A Personal Message from Rhonda To Prospective Birth Mothers What I really wanted was to have the baby and be a mom. I wanted to be a parent. I think just like most women who are pregnant and make a decision to carry the pregnancy. I think it surprises people. It wasn’t about not wanting […]
Birth Mother Says Her Goodbyes to Adoptive Parents and Adoptee
INDIANA – In this room today sat a birth mother, two adoptive parents, and one baby that they all love very much. I stood in the hallway as they said their goodbyes. They spoke about the 48 hours they spent together in the hospital and the ups and downs they went through during that time. […]
Lots of Adoptions in Indiana Today! – October 9, 2015
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 […]
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, 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 […]
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. […]
Child Support Action Against Birth Mother
I have been handling adoptions for over 30 years. I recently received a phone call from a woman who was thinking about adoption five years ago. We met with her and made the arrangements for the adoption. When the baby was born, her mother stepped in and said that she would raise the baby. At […]
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 […]
