A young, single woman (under 20-years-old) is relocating to South Carolina, most likely in March, with plans to place her baby for adoption when the baby is born in early July.

Tomorrow, Feb. 5, at 9 pm (EST), Carolina Hope is offering a live online adoption education course about openness in adoption. Here’s the write-up from the course page:
We often hear that families who are considering a domestic adoption are afraid of an “open” adoption. In this 1-and-a-half-hour course, you will learn what an open adoption [...]

We are working with a young African American woman who is in the process of relocating to SC, and she would like to place her baby for adoption. Her due date is in June, and she is not sure the sex of the baby she is having.

For the teenage girl who has sex and gets pregnant, she has three choices: abortion, adoption, and parenting. If adoption were promoted as a positive option, unborn lives could be saved and women and children would not be entering into poverty at such alarming rates. For the sake of women and children we need to promote adoption.

Over at Focus on the Family’s Boundless Webzine, Kimberly Eddy has written an article called “Looking for My Birthmother.”
Here’s an excerpt:
Many people are under the erroneous assumption that an adoptee’s desire to search for their biological family is rooted in some sort of ingratitude towards the sacrifices their adoptive parents have made for them. Others [...]

Open to openness means that the adoptive parents should be willing to meet with the birth mother before the baby is born, be with her at the hospital, and provide her with pictures and letters after the child is placed with them.

Tree, gifts, spiral ham and sparkling cider - we are not talking about gross excess here, but the simple things that are a traditional part of our culture. It’s the question of spending money that does not absolutely have to be spent while we are facing the inevitable reality of significant bills related to adoption.

Laura and Sarah discuss the possibility of Sarah’s someday meeting the daughter she placed for adoption.

This interview is part of a short series of interviews and testimonies about adoption. (Last week we blogged Margaret’s Mothers’ Day Testimony of placing a child for adoption.)
A few months ago Carolina Hope’s director (Laura Godwin) interviewed Sarah, a young woman who placed her infant daughter for adoption during her senior year of college.
In this [...]

Sarah talks about giving birth and how hospital policies required some changes in her plans. She also talks about holding her baby girl before putting her in the arms of her new family.

In this interview, Sarah talks about openness in adoption from the birthmother’s perspective. She relates her first meeting with the prospective adoptive parents, as well as what qualities in the couple were important to her.

The following audio clip is excerpted from an interview with Margaret, a wife and mother who, when she was seventeen, found out she was pregnant and made a decision that would change her life.
Here is the final part of Margaret’s testimony (given on Mother’s Day in her home church). Parts 1 and 2 were posted [...]

The following audio clips are excerpted from an interview with Margaret, a wife and mother who, when she was seventeen, found out she was pregnant and made a decision that would change her life.
Here are the next two parts of Margaret’s testimony (given on Mother’s Day in her home church). Parts 1 and 2 were [...]

The following audio clips are excerpted from an interview with Margaret, a wife and mother who, when she was seventeen, found out she was pregnant and made a decision that would change her life.
Here are the first two parts of Margaret’s testimony (given on Mother’s Day in her home church). Parts 3, 4, and 5 [...]

In a week and a half, on October 29 (Wednesday, 9 pm), Carolina Hope is offering a live online adoption education course about openness in adoption. Here’s the write-up from the course page:
We often hear that families who are considering a domestic adoption are afraid of an “open” adoption. In this 1-and-a-half-hour course, you will [...]

Tomorrow evening (Tuesday, October 7), Carolina Hope Christian Adoption Agency will hold its monthly Adoption Education workshop entitled “Introducing Domestic and International Adoption.” The workshop is free of charge and will be held at Carolina Hope’s office in Greenville, SC. More details at our Adoption Workshops page.

Carolina Hope’s director Laura Beauvais-Godwin will be presenting during a break-out workshop at New Jersey’s 27th Annual “Let’s Talk Adoption” conference to be held on November 1. Laura’s session is entitled, “Openness in Adoption: A Birth Mother and an Adoptive Mother Tell Their Shared Story,” and presenting with her will be Margaret, the birthmother of one of Laura’s daughters.

Carolina Hope’s Domestic site has recently added a new feature: profiles of waiting families who are trying to be matched with a birthmother.

The following story came to me as a forwarded email, and it sounded just a little too perfect to be true — except that it IS true: it’s an account written by one of my dad’s cousins who volunteers for StandUpGirl, a pro-life organization. Her specific job is to correspond with women who need counsel [...]

Carolina Hope is offering a live, interactive online education course on Transracial & Transcultural Adoptions. The cost for this course is only $15. You must sign-up at least 2 hours before the course begins.