If I Give My Baby Up For Adoption, Why Do I Have To Fill Out A Detailed Medical And Social History Background Form?

While in certain circumstances, you may put up your baby for adoption without completing a background form, consider these reasons for not only filling one out but doing so in as much detail as possible:

1. A birth mother who gives her baby up for adoption or, more correctly, makes an adoption plan for the child, does so because she loves her child and wants more for her child than she feels that she can provide at that moment in her life. Filling out a detailed background form is consistent with her motivations for pursuing adoption. 
2. If the adoptive parents know that a particular medical condition runs in the birth mother’s family, they can look out for that condition in providing better medical care for her child.
3. Likewise, if a birth mother has a special talent, interest or skill, and the adoptive parents know about it, they can help her child foster that talent, interest, or skill.
4. Probably the most important reason relates to a concern that nearly every expectant mother and birth mother has when thinking about adopting out their newborns What will my child think of me for having made the decision I made? The very act of filling out a background in as much detail as possible shows the child that his or her birth mother and birth father, if he is involved, made a conscious, intentional decision to put the child’s needs ahead of their own needs. Or to say it differently, a parent who abandons their child, or worse, does not take the time to leave for the child detailed background information. 

At Adoption Attorneys Kirsh & Kirsh, P.C. (“Kirsh & Kirsh”), the four adoption attorneys at Kirsh & Kirsh have over 100 years of combined legal experience arranging adoptions. Kirsh & Kirsh has been in existence since 1981. We can find a wonderful home for your baby regardless of your social and medical history. Please be honest with us and do not worry that no one will want your baby.  There is always a family waiting to love your child. We have lots of wonderful, carefully screened, loving families, FROM INDIANA AND ALL OVER THE COUNTRY (married, single, Lesbian, and Gay) who cannot wait to welcome a baby into their hearts and homes and are happy to assist with living expenses to the fullest extent allowed by law. You make all the choices about which family adopts your baby and the extent of contacts you want after the child’s birth. Conversely, if you do not wish to choose the family, we will pick the best family on your behalf.

If you would like more information about adoption and available living expenses during and after your pregnancy, we, at Adoption Attorneys Kirsh & Kirsh — or the “Kirsh Boys,” as the adoption attorneys at Kirsh & Kirsh are sometimes called – would be happy to help. Steve, and his brothers, Joel and Rob, and his son, Grant, pride themselves on answering questions about adoption and explaining the process without pressure or judgment. 

As attorneys, we at Kirsh & Kirsh, have very high standards for the prospective adoptive parents we choose to represent. All our waiting families are carefully screened and thoroughly investigated. We will arrange for you to have contact with the family you choose on your terms, without families trying to reach you at all hours of the day or night. 

Our contact information is below. We will answer your questions and provide the information you seek, without cost or obligation on your part. In other words, talking to us is FREE and does NOT mean you ever have to talk or text with us, again. We can help you in finding an AMAZING, WONDERFUL, adoptive home for your precious baby, whether you live in Sullivan or Indianapolis, New Albany or Bloomington, Evansville or Jasper, Munster or South Bend, Lafayette or Ft. Wayne, or any Indiana county or city in between, or ANYWHERE in Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky, Michigan, or Illinois.

You can call, text and or email us anytime — call: 317-575-5555, text: 800-333-5736, contact us, or Facebook message. We answer our office phone 24 hours a day, every single day. We try to respond to emails and text messages within minutes of receipt.

POSITIVE ADOPTION LANGUAGE DISCLAIMER:  Please understand that these blog posts are written in a way to use language that people use when searching for help with their adoption plans.  Unfortunately, while all of us understand what positive adoption language means, most expectant moms that come to us at first do not understand what that means. The most common search term on the Internet for expectant moms is “how do I give up my baby for adoption”.  If we do not include those words in our blog posts, and instead put “how do I create an adoption plan for my baby” then our website will not show up in most expectant mom’s search results in Google.