Adoption

If you are considering placing your child for adoption, the information below should be very helpful to you.

Where to Start provides you with an overview of the entire adoption process and practical information about adoption alternatives.  This will help a birth mother or birth father whether you decide to place your child for adoption or raise your child yourself.  It describes the benefits of counseling and reviews the different types of confidential and open adoption arrangements.

This site looks carefully at the emotional issues that a birth mother and birth father face after making the decision to place an infant for adoption, in surrendering, terminating, and relinquishing their rights to the child, and in handling the feelings that often persist afterwards. 

Explains the major kinds of adoption: agency and private, open and closed, and intrastate, interstate, and international adoption. Understanding these can help a birth mother and birth father develop a meaningful adoption plan for their child.

Open and closed adoptions are frequently misunderstood not only by birth mothers and birth fathers but also by adopting families. This site will allow you to fully understand open adoption and a closed adoptions and give a birth mother and birth father some valuable help in custom-designing the arrangements so that they meet with your wishes and desires.

Agency versus private adoption is an important issue since the services available under each type of adoption can differ greatly. In many states private adoptions are illegal.  There are several reasons for the greater risks of a private adoption, and this and other information is provided in the site.

Facilitator adoptions have become such an important concern that the U.S. government has warned birth mothers, birth fathers and adopting families to work with an agency and avoid adoption facilitators. This site will explain the differences between using an agency and a facilitator and offer guidance to a birth mother and birth father.

Provides information and help is you are thinking of placing your child with a relative.

Selecting the right adopting family is critical.  In order to make sure the family is indeed the type you want, and to help assure a safe environment for your baby, every family needs to be carefully screened and evaluated.

This site will give a birth mother and birth father specific tips on how to select the agency that is best for you and tour baby.

Provided on this site are support groups to help a birth mother or birth father who is considering adoption.

We truly care about you and your baby and about other women in your situation.  We want to do everything possible to help you and your child.  There are many kinds assistance programs available to help you and other pregnant women, birth mothers and children free of charge.  These include financial, medical, nutritional and health assistance programs as well as a variety of support and information groups. If you need help you can click this link to find all kinds of assistance programs. And the following links will help you find pregnancy support groups as well as parenting and adoption support groups.  If you want our help you can call us anytime and from any place in the U.S. (toll free # 1-800-943-0400). You can get our help whether you are pregnant or have already delivered and are raising your child yourself or want to place your child for adoption. We are here to help you and there is never any cost or obligation on your part. 

If you are considering placing your child for adoption we are also here to help.  We would be happy to help find a safe and loving home with a family that has been very carefully and thoroughly screened. We can help you regardless of what state you are in.  Our services to you are free, your medical and legal expenses will be provided for and we will make sure that you receive whatever reimbursement for housing, lost wages and living expenses that state laws allow.  You may reach me, Dr Vince Berger, or my staff by calling our toll free number at 1-800-943-0400 or you can contact me by email.  If there is anything we can do to help you and your baby, please contact me.