A home for every child. We don t leave. We come, and we stay. Their counseling services also help birth mothers understand every alternative before making a decision to place. But when we open up, so do they.
Relationships find fortitude from there.
Dowdy had given birth just one year prior and had placed her child using a closed adoption method. In a Closed Adoption, birth and adoptive parents do not exchange identifying information, such as names and addresses. It enables birth mothers to meet and converse with adoptive parents prior to a child s placement. Counselors mediate the exchange. Once the child is placed in a new family, birth parents can still visit through pictures and letters.