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A Carnival of Pain, Uncertainty, and Hope
Adoption Tax Credit
Adoption and Drugs and Alcohol Exposure
Babies Deserve Better
Creating Your Family (Legally) with a Step Parent Adoption
Explanation of Indiana Code 35-46-1-22 35-46-1-22 -Indiana's Anti-facilitator Law
Feelings of Loss
Haitian Orphans
Hard to Place
If Kirsh and Kirsh Only Represents the Adoptive Parents, what about the Birth Mother?
If You Think it is Expensive to Hire an Expert, Try Hiring an Amateur
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Not Until She Walked in Her Shoes
Parenting A Teenaged Pregnant Daughter
Pregnancy Pact - You Can't Make this Stuff Up!
That Very Winter by Mia Hinkle
The Tail that Wagged the Dog . . The Need to Change the Public Perception
What should I do?
Recent Updates
January 20, 2012
What are my other children going to think if I place my baby for adoption?
January 20, 2012
Adoption and Drugs and Alcohol Exposure
January 20, 2012
Adoption Tax Credit
January 18, 2012
I cannot believe I am pregnant again. What should I do?
September 20, 2011
Written by an adoptive mom who adopted through our office 18 years ago, an essay she describes as the "Meaning of Love"
Babies Deserve Better
Recently, a baby was found dead on a college campus, shortly after his mother gave birth to him. Another was left at the emergency room of an Indianapolis hospital. Thank goodness the second woman chose the emergency room instead of a dumpster. However, neither situation needed to happen. The mothers of these children could have made adoption plans and gone through the rest of their lives knowing that they had provided their children with loving and secure homes...
BABIES DESERVE BETTER THAN DUMPSTERS
Recently, a baby was found dead on a college campus, shortly after his mother gave birth to him. Another was left at the emergency room of an Indianapolis hospital. Thank goodness the second woman chose the emergency room instead of a dumpster. However, neither situation needed to happen. The mothers of these children could have made adoption plans and gone through the rest of their lives knowing that they had provided their children with loving and secure homes.
Adoption is a heroic, loving choice made by a woman. It is the essence of being a good mother to secure a child's future. Nothing will change the fact of an unplanned pregnancy, not even abortion. However, adoption offers a woman a second chance for both herself and her baby. But, before more women will consider adoption, they have to believe there will be acceptance among their friends, family, and community. The world needs to see adoption as a loving and heroic choice. According to a study by the National Council for Adoption, less than 50% of Americans finds adoption a favorable option for unwed mothers of unplanned pregnancies. Maybe when our society views adoption in a more favorable light, we will find fewer babies in dumpsters.
