An adoption agency is not just a resource for families who are wishing to Norman Adopt. For someone who is alone and finds herself pregnant, the right adoption agency can be a source of comfort and support. An attentive and understanding counselor can help a woman deal with her feelings at this time and answer her questions about the adoption process, as well as help her work through her thoughts about whether she is ready to be a parent at this time. Considering whether or not to offer her unborn child for adoption is a selfless and lifelong gift, and adoption agencies understand that birth parents, too, need compassion and support at this time.
A birth mother has the choice to abort, to keep her child and raise it, or to Norman Adopt the child into a loving home, and it’s understandable that she, and possibly the birth father, too, will have lots of questions, and not know what to expect. Some adoption agencies will allow the birth parent or parents to select the adoptive family. Families will already have had a criminal background check, including any record of child abuse or neglect.
Birth parents have options in which adoption plan they will use, from a closed and confidential adoption, to an open adoption, or a semi-open adoption. In a confidential adoption, the adoptee and the adoptive family will only receive non-identifiable information about the birth parents, like their medical background, but there is no contact between the parties. In an open adoption, the birth parents will be able to have contact and visitation with their child. A semi-open adoption means that the birth parents will be able to send pictures, cards, and letters to their child.
Some adoptees desire to reconnect with their birth parents at some point in their lives. Nowadays, there are adoption agencies who prepare for this in advance. Both birth parents and adoptive parents considering whether to Norman Adopt are counseled in advance about this possibility and about the adoption agency’s procedures for helping the adoptee and the birth parents to contact each other should both parties be willing to do so in the future.