Adoption Affects on Birthmothers

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9. Understand the implications.

I represent a client whose five children were needlessly removed by Child Protection. The court found no evidence of abuse and/or neglect. CP is still fighting tooth-and-nail to have them adopted by the foster parents.

What would happen if my client loses her fight to regain her children?

1. She loses all access to them legally. She cannot contact them in any manner. Like a restraining order until they are 18.

2. The birth certificates of the children are changed from the biological parents to the adopting parents. The original birth certificates are sealed and unavailable to the children.

3. Naturally, the last names of the children are changed from their birth names to those of the adopting parents.

4. The children likely will refer to their foster parents as "mom" and "dad" and to their biological parents by their first names.

5. It is the death of one family in order to create a new one.

Not all adoptions are wonderful for the children.