Afterwards, she worked as an expectant mother counselor, helping
women make adoption plans for their unborn children.
These are some of the most important services your adoption professional should offer to
any woman making an adoption plan:
Not exact matches
Earlier this week I wrote about the timing of placing a baby for
adoption — whether there was a better time for a pregnant
woman to start considering a
plan and about the choices that other expectant mothers had
made in creating a
plan of their own.
But for
women like you who are
making what many people consider is the ultimate sacrifice by creating an
adoption plan and putting your child's needs before your own, it can be a very lonely and confusing time.
The
women there were focused on helping expectant moms
make an
adoption plan versus helping hopeful parents find a baby.
Agency counsellors are there to convince the young
woman to surrender (now called «
making an
adoption plan»).
When faced with unplanned pregnancy there are pro-choice, liberal, secular
women who have abortions and then there are pro-life, conservative, religious
women who
plan adoptions; both groups may parent, but this choice also comes with its fair share of stigmas and judgments if
made under socially unacceptable circumstances, like being a young, single, or impoverished).