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In reply to the discussion: Are you planning to have children (procreate)? [View all]StevieM
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who thinks that she is going to them for assistance. In reality, there is only one option that they advocate for: adoption. And they tell expectant mothers that they will help prepare them for motherhood, all the while planning to break them down and make them feel unworthy of parenting their own children.
I have a friend who sent her daughter to a place called the pregnancy resource center. She wanted to go with her, but after the first meeting they said that the young girl had to go by herself. The mother didn't understand that they do this so that the parents will not see what the place is getting ready to do to their daughter. They systematically broke this poor 19 year old girl down. The only reason she didn't agree to the adoption is because she couldn't trust the baby with a stranger.
Eventually a relative offered to adopt the baby when he heard there had been some talk of adoption. The girl agreed. She changed her mind after the baby was born. The moment she saw her daughter she was in love--she was a mom. Her grandparents were in love with their new granddaughter. But the pressure from the extended family was intense. The parents caved and told the girl she should follow through with her plan or they would all get kicked out of the family.
Under duress, and drugged on painkillers, the girl acquiesced. She regretted it within 24 hours. After a week of of watching their daughter cry day and night, the parents realized their mistake. The girl asked for her uncle for her baby back. She begged. The man said that he couldn't do that to his wife. The parents said they were getting a lawyer, to which the father's own brother responded: "this is going to get ugly."
According the law, this adoption was not coerced, because the PAPs never directly said anything to the mother. So the adoption couldn't be overturned. So the young mom lost her child and her life was completely ruined. The uncle, who she loved too much to hurt, then closed the adoption for over a year. Now she gets one annual visit, with the rest of the family completely shut out.
The girl's father no longer speaks to anyone in his family, including his parents, who were instrumental in driving the coerced adoption through. The birth mother and her siblings no longer speak to their grandparents, or their paternal aunts, uncles and cousins. The family has been shattered, probably beyond repair.
The only winners here are the adoptive parents, who got a child that they could not have gotten through ethical means. And of course, the lawyer, who made some money.