I need some help with placing my baby for adoption?
Posted November 20th, 2009 by admin 7 Comments »
Ok so the situation is that I live in Western Australia, and I want to give my baby up for adoption after it’s born. But over here we don’t have any adoption agencies or anything like that, you have to use the foster care people who put the baby into an adoption home. But basically doing that you don’t get to pick out the parents that you want the baby to have.
I definitely want to do adoption, no doubts there, but I really want to be able to pick out the parents. I mean I’m entitled to that right? Plus here it has to be an open adoption, even if you don’t want that. I want a closed adoption.
So my question is, can I go to the USA and put my baby up for adoption there? They have actual adoption agencies and I like the idea of meeting the parents and getting to know them, plus an agency just seems so much nicer than the government doing it. Is is possible as an Australian citizen to give birth in America and have the baby adopted there?
And if that is possible, can anyone recommend a good agency? Thanks so much!
Thanks to the first person who answered, I’ve been able to start doing some research.
For Heather B, I don’t know what your problem is but you don’t know what you’re talking about. Yes, we’re presented with files of the parents and details of their lifestyles, etc on paper, but you don’t actually meet them until the baby is born. I prefer to meet face to face with the people I am giving a baby to, just because a peice of paper says one thing the people themselves can be entirely different!
And yes, in WA every adoption is open to some degree. Whether you see the child or not the adoption is open and the parents have all your details and vice versa.
So maybe you should do your research before you insult people you don’t know and make a hard situation even harder for them?
Ok, don’t worry about it if none of you can help just say so there’s no need to insult people. You have NO idea what my reasons or situation is and neither do you have a right to I have begun my own research and am finding out for myself.