Services to Birth Parents
Pregnancy can be a wonderful experience. It can also be frightening and unsure path if you are alone and without the support of the birth father or family. The hardest decision you will ever make will be deciding the future of your baby. Making the first phone call to us will be the best choice for you.
We at Adoption Angels, Inc. understand what you are going through. We have years of experience and we at Adoption Angels, Inc. are here for you during such an emotional time in your life.
What services can we provide?
- Contacts with you whether by phone or in person are confidential.
- A professional counselor will talk with you about your concerns and choices. You have the right to be treated with dignity and respect at all times.
- We will mail you a packet and provide you with a toll free number you can access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- We will help with allowable living expenses and legal expenses. We will provide transportation to and from doctor's appointments when necessary.
- We will provide you with referrals to obtain Medicaid or other public aid. We will provide you with referrals to obtain housing, daycare, education or job training.
- We offer open and semi-open adoptions. You have the opportunity to choose the family for your baby. You can meet them before your baby is placed if you so desire. Race is not an obstacle.
- We will contact or assist the birth father, family members, or friends with your decision and help them understand what adoption is only if you so desire.
- Adoptive parents are carefully screened and investigated to ensure they are loving, nurturing, and stable parents. We ensure that there is no history of child abuse or criminal activity on their record.
- Adoptive parents must have a medical infertility issue. You make their dream come true of becoming a family. A miracle that makes adoption a life-changing event for you, your baby and the adoptive family.
- We provide continuous guidance and encouragement throughout your pregnancy.
- We do not pressure you to place your baby. You will always be in control of your final decision.
- After birth and your baby is placed you continue to be provided with counseling or can be provided a resource list of other places that can provide that counseling to you. This is a lifetime commitment on our part. We will provide you with information about the Adoption Registry.
- After placement you will continue to receive pictures and letters about your baby until the age of 5. After that you will receive yearly contacts until the child reaches the age of 18. We ask adoptive parents to start talking to their child about adoption and the wonderful choice the birth mother made. We will provide a lifetime connection between the birth mother and agency staff. All our services to birth parents are free and confidential.
Each year thousands of women from all walks of life find themselves with an unplanned pregnancy. There is no set age, but it is a known fact that it can be a teenager who just wants to earn her high school diploma or a single mother working to support her children and just can not support another child.
Every year 1.1 million teens aged 15 through 19, end up in an unplanned pregnancy. That is about 3,000 pregnancies daily. Of those million, 155,000 reside in the state of Texas. Texas compared to the United States rates as the second highest of births to adolescents aged 15 to 17. Texas rates as the third highest for pregnancy of adolescents aged 15 to 17 years of age. Fifty percent chose to parent and forty percent terminate their pregnancy while only two percent chose adoption.
About 65 percent of those teens drop out of high school. Those teens that marry because of pregnancy will eventually divorce. These teens end up as single parents due to the father of the child walking out and leaving the teen mom to raise her child alone. About eighty percent of these teen moms will eventually end up on welfare. According to surveys conducted in criminal institutions, more than seventy percent of the population came from fatherless homes.
What can you do to change such a life changing event? First become educated on what adoption really is. Adoption has changed dramatically thanks to adult adoptees and our legislators who listened and cared enough to change adoption laws. Because adoption has changed drastically in the last few years, we want to make you aware.
In the past, stories surfaced through the media and movies about babies being snatched right after birth and taken away from the birth mother. Incidences which occurred under secrecy, as faceless that the birth mother was left with only the hurt to wonder who had her baby and how was her baby doing. As the years passed nothing was ever said as all records of the birth and adoption were closed. Both adoptees and birth parents needed an act of Congress to get information. Because of these people and due to many problems these individuals now faced, laws changed.
Today adoption is the most beautiful experience you can participate in. Birth parents have the right to view profiles and pictures of different families and decide who they like for their child. Birth parents have the opportunity to meet adoptive parents and establish contact and a source of communication. Birth parents will know how their child is progressing. Adoptive parents are expected to under go an extensive background check, to participate in parenting classes, and to talk to their child bout adoption and their birth parents. Adoptive parents need to be open-minded and willing to assist the child to seek their birth parents when the child reaches 18 years old.