Birth Parents
Most birth parents choose to place their child into an adoptive family because they are unable to provide the lifestyle they want for the child. It's a choice that is made with love as well as certain degree of common sense. Often, the decision is also made with the best intentions for the parents' future as well, and many birth mothers and fathers will pursue a career and family sometime after placing his or her child with an adoptive family.
The decision to place a child with an adoptive family is one that has many state laws regulating how active each birth parent needs to be in adoption process and consent. Birth mother rights are more often clearer than birth father rights and while many states require adoption professionals to attempt to reach out to prospective birth fathers, they have considerably fewer rights.
If you are a birth parent who didn't elect to have an open adoption, it's important to familiarize yourself with your post-adoption rights and to prepare for the possibility that the child you placed may one day attempt to contact you with questions about your life post-placement and the placement decision. Thousands of adoptees register for search services every month, according to the Adoptee Search Center & Registry. Parents should also consider the possibility of wanting to search as well. Around monumental times in one's life, such as a graduation, birth, death, or marriage, one may be more inclined to search out of curiosity.
Adoptees aren't the only ones in an adoption that may question things. It's very common for a birth parent to question his or her decision, especially as they settle down after the adoption or receive updates from the adoptive family about the placed child. Finding a support group to voice any regret or guilt later after placement is something that can help birth parents work through complex and irreversible choices.
Coping with the decision to place a child is different for each birth mother and father, and it's completely normal for birth parents to feel curious about the child they placed around the time of that child's developmental milestones, such as starting school, graduating, going to college or getting married. If you're a birth parent and questioning your choice, remember you made the best decision for your child.
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How beneficial do you feel visits are when there is animosity? May 14, 2012, 11:09 am Just wondering how beneficial you feel visits are when there is animosity between birth parents and adoptive parents.
My son is adopted from foster care (he's been with us since he was 3 months old), and we were able to maintain a good relationship with his birth parents for a long while. We...
County questionMay 13, 2012, 6:11 pm Hi,
I see that you said that you live in San Bernardino county, but adopted from Los Angeles county. I didn't know you could do that. Can we do that? I hear that Riverside county is super understaffed! I'm also wondering if it will be weird to adopt a kid from where the birth parents live....
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What is a birth parent's role in open adoption May 14, 2012, 9:12 pm I am a birth father. I am in a situation which is basically like an open adoption, though I did not give her up for adoption. Her birth mother's husband is her legal father, against my wishes clearly communicated to both the husband and birth mother. I am also a very far distance from my...
Support for kinship placementMay 10, 2012, 5:09 am I am in a tough situation. My cousin has been in and out of prison for the last 12 years and had a 12 and 9 year old she was unable to regain custody of when she was released last time. She immediately got pregnant again and decided to keep the baby and raise him. When he was 3 months old, she was...
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