Adoption
You may be facing an unplanned pregnancy and want to look at your options. There are many options and you can decide on the best choice for you and your baby. Adoption may be something that you don’t know too much about and wonder how people would react to it. Many women find that adoption is a good option for them.
There are several types of adoption
- Closed – where you would not meet the adoptive
family
- Open - While many adoption professionals have
varying definitions of what an "open" adoption is, it typically means
that the birth parents and the adoptive family speak prior to and even
after the child is born. This may include phone calls and face-to-face
visits. Some adoptions of this nature are very open, with the adoptive
family and birth parents exchanging contact information and agreeing to
periodic visits by the birth parents as the child grows. It is also
common in open adoptions for the adoptive family to mail pictures and
letters to the birth parents.
- Semi-Open – Semi-open adoptions fall in between open and closed adoptions. The adoptive family and birth parents usually will know basic information about each other, such as their first names and state of residence. Complete contact information, such as phone numbers and addresses, are not shared. While adoptive families and birth parents speak and meet, some confidentiality is maintained. Once the child has been placed with the adoptive family, the birth parents may still stay in contact with the family via letters and pictures, however this correspondence is handled by a third party, such as the adoption agency.
Why do some pregnant women choose adoption?
- Some women are putting their baby's
needs ahead of their own and do so out of love for the child.
- Some women desire to give their child
everything they are not able to provide at this time.
- Some women want a stable, two-parent
home for their child, and most adoptive families can provide this
because they are secure financially and emotionally, and have been
waiting to be parents.
- Some women want their child to be able
to go to college and have a wonderful education.
- Some women realize their current
situation is not the best for their child and do not want to
struggle from day-to-day.
- Some women already have children, and
know that having another would hinder their ability to meet those
children's needs as well as a new baby.
- Some women don't want to try and raise a
child with the birth father because he is not a good influence or
because he is not supportive financially or emotionally, or both.
- Some women are scared and did not plan
for this to happen in their life at this point. They want to find a
way to bring the baby into the world and continue on with their goals
such as education, employment, etc.
- Some women are not ready to parent, but do not believe in abortion so adoption is a wonderful solution.
Pregnancy Lifeline is not an adoption agency and we do not act as one. We are not biased towards adoption when compared to other pregnancy options. We do not have a contract with any adoption agency, but we can give referrals to several agencies within the state of Texas.