This is one of the saddest myths about adoption, and it deserves a direct answer. Placing your baby in a caring, nurturing home puts your child’s needs before your own. Adoption is a selfless choice.

It’s important to ask your Bethany counselor about the type of adoption you’re considering. There are 3 kinds of adoptions: open, semi-open and a confidential. Your friends at Bethany would count it a privilege to share the stories of countless birth moms who have an ongoing relationship with their child and the adoptive family.

Let’s answer that question with a more important one: Are you ready to be a parent? We believe it’s important to make a loving decision based on what is the most responsible decision for you and your child today. Far from irresponsible, adoption is often the most responsible choice.

No, your child will always be an important part of your personal story and life journey. Your friends at Bethany will be here to guide you before, during and certainly after the adoption.

No, the challenges children face aren’t always the result of adoption, and this includes psychological challenges or issues related to their own identity. Our team at Bethany makes sure you’re never alone or without the support you and your child need.

Adoption is a loving, life-affirming decision that puts your child’s needs ahead of your own. Maintaining this reality-based view of adoption helps every birthparent understand the true nature of loss, and the lifelong hope experienced by those who have made this amazing choice. Because of flexible laws allowing relationships to form with children and their adoptive families, birthparents do not have to suffer with lifelong emotional problems and pain.

While there are so many examples of heroic, self-sacrificing single moms, the best home environment for a child is a loving, two-parent home. Dads provide important balance, unique strengths and an indispensable partner for raising a child. Giving the very best opportunity for your child begins, if at all possible, with a loving mother and father.

Whenever possible, we encourage adoptive parents to build a strong, lasting relationship with the birth parent. This gives a child the special knowledge that the decision to follow an adoption choice for them was made with love as the driving motivation. It’s been our experience that parents who choose adoption are often some of the most giving and truly loving moms and dads.

It’s true! Whenever possible, we want birthparents to know firsthand that their child is going to be placed in loving, caring home and family.

In most instances, we believe an ongoing relationship between adoptive parents and birth parents is vital and important to developing healthy families.   We look forward to telling you about ways you can keep your child an important part of your life.