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Questions to Consider Prior to Making an Adoption Plan

The decisions birthparents must make concerning adoption plans affect them and others for a life time. The following check list is offered as a guideline but is not all-inclusive.

A Birth Mother's Advice on Choosing Adoptive Parents

Years ago, when I was a teenager and saw the world through rose colored glasses, I dreamed of being a mother. I daydreamed about wearing maternity clothes, decorating a nursery and tossing around baby names. Little did I know then that I would be helping someone else decorate a nursery and listen to them throwing around names for my baby.

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Take control. ParentProfiles.com (a service of Adoption Profiles, LLC) empowers you to choose from hundreds of hopeful adopting couples and select the one you feel most comfortable adopting your child.

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After Placement

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Choosing Adoption

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Legal Considerations

accepting money from adopting parents, interstate adoption, laws, legalized abandonment: safe haven laws, relinquishment & time to revoke, termination of rights

My Pregnancy

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Open Adoption

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Preparing for Placement

birthmother's bill of rights, counseling, dealing with doubt, placement: saying goodbye, pre-placement journaling, pre-placement questions to ask, preparing for placement: hospital time, relinquishing

Support

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