Before you make a decision, you owe it to yourself and your baby to get all the facts about adoption. A Laredo Life Center volunteer counselor can help you better understand the option of adoption and how it fits into your situation--call 956-285-2536 to schedule an appointment.
Here are some important facts you should also consider during this important decision- making process:
Making an adoption plan will give you a second chance.
Should you choose to place your child for adoption, statistics indicate that your child will be less likely to experience a deprived and stressful childhood. The realities of single parenthood mean that your opportunities for dating, marriage, higher education, good jobs and a comfortable standard of living may be severely limited.
Statistically, adopted children have stronger identities and self-esteem than children raised by single mothers.
Adoption saves your child from the all-too-frequent damage that comes from being raised in a fatherless home.
• Children in families without fathers are five times more likely to grow up in poverty.
• Children in families without fathers are three to four times more likely to commit suicide.
• Children in families without fathers are two to three times more likely to abuse drugs.
• 70 percent of long-term inmates grew up fatherless.
• Girls without a father in the home are more likely to get pregnant before marriage.
Adoption is truly a heroic act—an act of love.
In most cases, adoption is the most loving and unselfish decision an unmarried, expectant mother can make. You see, love is not primarily an emotion (even though most of us have picked up a different message). Love is taking action in the best interests of another person or persons, regardless of one’s emotional feelings. As one birth mother said of her choice to make an adoption plan for her baby daughter, “I knew that my decision would be the hardest thing in the world, but I also knew it was the best thing for my daughter."
A Laredo Life Center volunteer counselor can help you better understand the option of adoption and how it fits into your situation--call 956-285-2536 to schedule an appointment.