What About Making an Adoption Plan?
To make a confident decision about your unexpected pregnancy, you should look at all your options. One of those is placing your child for adoption. Like abortion, adoption can be a difficult choice to make. But unlike abortion, you have the opportunity to have a relationship with your child as they grow.
The adoption process has changed significantly over the years. Now, an expectant woman or birth mother makes all the decisions. She chooses the adoptive family who raises her child and the future she would like them to have.
The Different Adoption Plans
There are three basic adoption plans. The plan you choose depends on how much contact you would like with the adoptive family and your child.
Open Adoption Plan
When you choose this plan, you and the adoptive family can communicate directly. You decide how much information to share, including full names, addresses, phone numbers, etc.
Semi-Open (Mediated) Adoption Plan
This plan offers more privacy for the birth and adoptive parents. You can contact one another, but all communication goes through a third party, such as the adoption agency you choose.
Experts recommend an open or semi-open adoption because of its many benefits for everyone.
Birth Mother
- Confidence that your child is loved and cared for
- The opportunity to be a part of your child’s life
- Explain to your child why you chose adoption
- Available to answer questions
Child
- Greater sense of identity
- The opportunity to be a part of their biological family
- An understanding of why they were placed for adoption
- The ability to ask questions
Closed Adoption Plan
If you wish to remain completely anonymous, choose a closed adoption. Neither you nor the adoptive family know or communicate with one another. The courts seal the original birth certificate, and you have no contact.
How Do I Know If Adoption Is Right For Me?
Learning as much as possible about adoption is critical in determining if this is the right choice for you and your child. At Birthright, we do not place children for adoption, but we refer for professional, reputable licensed adoption agencies you can talk with.
Schedule a free appointment to discuss this and all of your options.