Safeguarding the Rights and Well-Being of Birthparents in the Adoption Process
Source: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute

This publication, released in November for National Adoption Awareness month, represents the most thorough, intensive and sophisticated effort to date to understand contemporary infant adoption, particularly as it relates to the least-understood and most-stigmatized participants in the process: the women and men usually termed “birthparents.”

According to this report, parents who choose adoption for their infants do not have their rights and needs sufficiently addressed in U.S. law and practice – largely because of basic misconceptions about who these women and men are – and they invariably fare better when they have ongoing information about and/or contact with the children they place into new families.

+ Full Report (PDF; 455 KB)

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