Her role as a birth worker is to support the experience each family desires emotionally, spiritually and physically, and to smooth the bumps in the road that accompany this unpredictable, yet incredible journey.
Not exact matches
She supported families in the
role of a nanny, preschool teacher, Americorps
worker, respite
worker and Special Education teacher, and finally
as a
Birth and Postpartum Doula.
The term «birthmother» was invented to limit our
role in our children's lives to 1) being production units («breeders»
as social
workers also called us) whose sole purpose was to serve a genital function, and 2) to having only been parents at the time of
birth, but not afterwards.
Depending on the adoption
worker's
role and the type of agency, services to
birth parents may be integral to the adoption process (
as with many private agencies), may be conducted by child welfare
workers (
as with some public and private agencies), or may be essentially nonexistent (
as with many intercountry placements or private adoptions completed without the involvement of a social services agency).