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Birth Mother’s Day this year is May 8th. Many people are not aware of this day. Adoptive families may be aware, but uncertain of how to observe it. Birth Mother’s Day was created in 1990 by a group of birth mothers (Silber, 2019), but what does observance of this day mean to the…
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Melanie’s Story (Name has been changed) Melanie discovered she was pregnant late into her 3rd trimester. After discussing her options with her parents, she made the brave decision to consider adoption for her unborn child. Melanie had goals she still wanted to accomplish in life and did not feel she was ready to…
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I’m pregnant…but I’m not the kind of person I thought would ever be a birth mom – Who really is a Birth Mom? By: Olivia Espinosa The word “adoption” may be coming into a more favorable light, but the label of “birth mother” can still be looked upon with judgment and stigma. Hollywood…
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Choosing adoption is putting your child before yourself and giving them a gift of a healthy family. In adoption, you are in the driver’s seat. You choose the parents that will raise your child from a group of potential parents. You get to see how they live, their families, their faith, and their…
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This is a very common thing to happen. You never in a million years thought that you would get pregnant. You thought you were being careful, but here you are, not ready to have a child or more importantly, parent a child! Some women or teens only had sex once and got pregnant….
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As social workers, our main goal is to provide support and assistance through various life-changing events. Our values remind us that it is our responsibility to protect children from abuse, neglect, and any other form of maltreatment. Year after year there have been countless infants abandoned in unsafe locations where they face…
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As birth mothers and adoptive families may research their options regarding adoption, they will find there are many different types of professionals involved in the adoption process. Adoption agencies could be viewed as more of an encompassing multi-disciplinary team approach while independent adoptions facilitated solely by adoption attorneys could be viewed as…
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November: Adoption Awareness Month Around 140,000 children are adopted by American families each year, and around 62% of babies in domestic infant adoptions were placed with their adoptive families within a month of birth (Adoption Network, 2013). This is quite a large number, but many people do not understand what exactly adoption…
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When I think about our open adoption through Hopeful Beginnings today as we have navigated through these days of COVID uncertainty, one idea is 100% certain. We have the BEST open adoption for us! Hopeful Beginnings continues to support our birth mother with any issues around her new family as well as helping…
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Adoption Child Welfare defines adoptions as the social, emotional, and legal process in which children who will not be raised by their birth parents become full and permanent legal members of another family while maintaining genetic and psychological connections to their birth family. There are different types of adoption in the United States:…
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