Five Texas truths that calm the what-ifs today From Houston delivery rooms to El Paso OB/GYN offices, we know this can feel urgent and overwhelming. Your head is spinning from social media with unlimited opinions and ‘what-ifs.’ Breathe. In Texas, clear facts change everything: you can make an adoption plan, but your consent to the …Read More about Adoption in Texas: 5 Facts Every Expectant Mother…
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Open Adoption in Texas: How It Works
The surprising truth about open adoption in Texas You came for how it really works—here’s the Texas twist. In most private infant adoptions here, openness is a relationship promise, not something a court polices. That means your early choices—what you share, who’s at the hospital, how you communicate—set the tone for years. Example? A Houston …Read More about Open Adoption in Texas: How It Works
In Their Own Words: Birth Mothers Describe Their…
As an adoption attorney, I have had the fortune of witnessing the miracles of domestic adoption on a daily basis. In domestic adoption, a birth mother chooses the perfect parent(s) she wants to adopt her child. She may have had a wonderful childhood that she feels she cannot replicate for her child or she may …Read More about In Their Own Words: Birth Mothers Describe Their…
A New Look on Adoption: A Birthmother’s View…
It was four years ago that I ended my nine-month journey towards adoption and headed into the land full of women called birthmothers. Before that time, I did not fully understand the journey of adoption or what I was getting into as a “birthmother.” Through my journey, I learned that when the circumstances are right, …Read More about A New Look on Adoption: A Birthmother’s View…