We, at Adoption Attorneys Kirsh & Kirsh, P.C. (“Kirsh & Kirsh”) cannot speak for adoption agencies, but we, at Kirsh & Kirsh, would NEVER pressure, or try to make, a birth mother feel bad about her decision to parent her child. We understand that she has the ABSOLUTE right to parent her child. Likewise, we […]
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 […]
The honest answer is “We don’t know.” Some children hate their parents for all kinds of reasons – real and imagined. However, much of how an adoptee feels about adoption will depend on how his or her adoptive parents talk about adoption to the adoptee. An adopted person who grows up in a loving, supportive […]
Your options include asking a friend or family to help you raise the child or raise the child for you. You might find an adoption agency to provide short-term foster care for the child. You could give birth and invoke the Safe Haven Law by leaving the baby at a fire or police station or […]
Living expenses in an adoption are intended to make the expectant mother’s life easier — not act as an inducement for a birth parent to give up a baby for adoption or, more correctly, make an adoption plan for a baby. Indiana Law allows adoptive parents to give money to expectant and birth mothers for […]
ABSOLUTELY, if you work with Adoption Attorneys Kirsh & Kirsh, P.C. (“Kirsh & Kirsh”). Years ago, pregnant women, who had unplanned or untimely pregnancies would go to adoption agencies to put up for adoption their babies, or more correctly, make adoption plans for their newborns. The agencies used their own criteria to decide who would […]
Yes, of course! Not only can we, at Kirsh & Kirsh, help you find a wonderful, carefully screened, thoroughly investigated individual, couple, or family to adopt your newborn or soon-to-be-born baby, we will travel to meet you in Newburgh or anywhere in Warrick County, Evansville or anywhere in Vanderburgh County, South Bend or anywhere in […]
Over the last 35+ years, a number of expectant mothers, thinking about giving up their babies for adoption, or more correctly, making an adoption plan for their newborns, have expressed this concern to us at Adoption Attorneys Kirsh & Kirsh, P.C. (“Kirsh & Kirsh”). Before directly responding to the concern, it is important to point […]
As the expression goes, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Who is “Best,” in many ways is a matter of personal preference. However, in forming an opinion a person may want to consider a few factors: Which adoption attorney or adoption agency has the most number of years of experience? Some will add […]
Some adoption agencies and states require adoption counseling for pregnant women considering adoption. We, at Adoption Attorneys Kirsh & Kirsh, P.C. (“Kirsh & Kirsh”), do not require that expectant mothers and birth mothers, who have contacted us to help them find an adoptive home for their babies, participate in counseling. We offer counseling and, in […]
