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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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 […]
How Do I Put My Baby Up for Adoption?
To “put my baby up for adoption” means first and foremost, you love your baby. Women do not “give up my baby for adoption” and frankly they do not “put my baby up for adoption.” What they do is love their baby and want for their baby a life they know, at this moment in […]
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? How do I "give up" my baby for adoption?
Depending on how you came across this blog you may be intrigued or even offended. Please trust me that it is not my intention to offend. I am just using this opportunity to prove how offensive this is. The truth of the matter is that in speaking with hundreds of people looking to place a […]
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. […]
Making Important Decisions
People struggle with decision making when the issue in front of them is really important. The best way to make any really important decision is to base the decision on reasons (facts) rather than emotions. A woman who is pregnant and trying to decide how she can provide for her child should take out a […]
Reasons to Consider Adoption
There are many reasons a woman considers adoption. Most commonly, we are told by the women we work with that they are just in a place in their life that they cannot provide for their baby. If the circumstances were different they would not be considering placing (or what some may refer to as “giving […]
