Posted on 06/25/2022 6:44:44 AM PDT by DoodleBob
(WHNT) — Expecting mothers seeking abortion might be forced to pursue other options after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark cases legalizing abortion nationwide.
Adoption has always been an option, but with the possibility of too many children and not enough homes to care for them, how will adoption agencies adapt to this shift in society?
News 19 spoke with local family service and adoption providers to learn how they plan to continue helping future mothers who might not be in a stable situation to care for a baby.
Herbie Newell, the president and executive director of Lifeline Children’s Services, says the Supreme Court’s decision doesn’t change the course of their ministry, or their mission to provide expecting mothers with the utmost support.
“To families that have been willing to foster to adopt and to support women and children, I can’t imagine that in North Alabama,” Newell told News 19. “We’re not going to have an overabundance of families willing to help meet the need of women in crisis.”
Newell says Lifeline has always had more families prepared to adopt than children.
The agency was able to find homes for over 50 children nationwide last year and has made 10 family matches in 2022.
Using Christ as a foundation to provide stable homes for children and an easy transition for expecting mothers, helps ensure that the child and mothers needs are met.
“You know, a mom finds herself in an unplanned crisis pregnancy, she doesn’t know where to turn,” said Jessie Jacobs, a social worker and church partnership coordinator. “The fear would be that she doens’t have any options.”
“With pregnancy counseling, a mother can reach out to Lifeline… and the first question isn’t going to be ‘okay, sign away, we’re going to adopt,'” Jacobs continued. “The first question is going to be ‘how can we best support mom?'”
Programs and counseling sessions are available for mothers and families looking to adopt. Domestic cases also grant the birth mother decision-making opportunities when picking the perfect family.
Jacobs added that a big part of Lifeline is creating space for birth mothers to keep in touch with their children and create reunification opportunities.
These folks want freedom and freedom from guilt. Hence kill the child rather than feel guilty about the child growing up without his true parents....commonly understood to be every orphaned/adopted/divorced child’s greatest deepest yearninf/quesrion.
Someone else taking over for them makes them feel too guilty. So they shake their head and walk right in to pay the hit man.
Not only do adoption agencies need to prepare, but schools as well. In 5 years there will be a lot more kids.
Or maybe people, both women and men, will decided to be less promiscuous than they otherwise would have been before the ruling. The standard “easy fix” of the last 50 years might cause them to think things through.
There’s 3 supply streams of children for adoption. Domestic newborns, older foster care, and international, usually from 3rd world countries.
There’s 100k+ children whose parents rights have been severed who are available for adoption. They are older, most were abused or neglected and have emotional and physical issues. No one wants them. Most counties will assist you in adopting, some will literally pay you.
There’s an estimate that there’s about 35 prospective adoptive parents for each healthy white newborn that is surrendered. Those are the children that cost 10’s of thousands of dollars to adopt. You know where that money goes? To the lawyers and the agencies. The mother can only be payed “reasonable expenses”. You know why many change their minds? Once the child is born and they see and hold it they realize they are making a horrible mistake. No woman should be coerced into giving their child up. Maybe provide assistance to her so she can keep her child?
International adoption is a hornets nest of corruption, falsified documents, bribery, kidnapping, and human trafficking. The costs can be 10’s of thousands of dollars, much of it in “fees” to government officials. It’s honorable to want to provide a good home to a child in an orphanage living in poverty, but many of these children have families and don’t understand the western concept of adoption, but they are continents apart and by the time they realize what’s happened, they have no recourse.
So my point is this, it’s expensive, yes. But if you really want to adopt, there’s thousands of children available. It’s an honorable thing to want to do something for a child that has had a bad life. But adoption of children who already has a family only needs assistance for a time should not be coerced into giving away their child.
Over my dead body will any child, grandchild, or greatgrandchild of mine will be given to strangers.
Why should the parents sign away their rights if they want their baby? Children who ended up in foster care weren’t considered for adoption
I was adopted at birth. It is the most lonely existence. I always felt like I just landed out of space. But we are constantly bombarded with the message that adoption is beautiful, we are lucky, we were so wanted, it was God’s plan, etc. So we think something is wrong with us, bury our thoughts and feelings on the subject due to fear of rejection by our parents, after all, our birth parents gave us away. It was years, decades, before I could face those thoughts and verbalize them without fear.
Over my dead body will any descendent of mine be given to strangers while I have the breath in my body
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