Call or Text: 325-853-8404
Email: charlotte.duncan625@yahoo.com
6802 Mapleridge St #101, Bellaire, TX 77401
One of Houston’s oldest, most well-respected independent licensed adoption agencies.
Are You Pregnant and Need Help?
Once you call me, I will:
- Give you Honest Answers to your questions about the adoption process
- Learn about and help you with your current financial needs and concerns
- Discuss your preference for the adoptive family you are wanting and help you find that “perfect” adoptive family.
- Help you develop a plan for the ongoing future relationship with the adoptive family and child.
As a woman facing a pregnancy that is not planned or one you are not prepared for, it can be a confusing, frightening, and lonely time. You may be feeling the urge to hurry up and find an adoptive family and the burden to make all the arrangements and take care of everything as quickly as possible. You probably don’t have any idea where to start.
“I never thought I would have an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy and be faced with this decision. How do I give my baby up for adoption? I don’t know anything about this. What is the adoption process and how do I get started?” Should I place with a family member, a friend, talk to my OB, or search on the internet.” It can be so overwhelming.
There are so many different options when choosing how to make an adoption plan for your baby and they should be fully understood before making such an important decision. How this decision is handled will affect the rest of your life.
You will see large impersonal licensed and unlicensed placement agencies with hundreds or thousands of families listed on their website. To these agencies, you more than likely, will be just a name on a piece of paper, oftentimes passed around from counselor to counselor.
Facilitators and attorneys have only one goal; to get your baby adopted as fast as possible. They are not motivated by a concern for your long-term emotional health, your financial concerns, the amount of contact you want with the baby through the years, or really anything that is important to you, unless it is a benefit to them. They are often out-of-state and will probably never even meet you in person and when the adoption is completed, they will no longer be there to help and care about you.
With a Private Placement that involves a doctor, friend or family member, though you may be comforted in knowing the family that adopts your baby, again, there is the lack of ongoing emotional support as well as concern over whether everything will be handled correctly and legally. These types of adoptions can also be difficult to navigate without a mediator making sure there are clear understandings about the future ongoing relationship between the birth mom, adoptive parents, and the child. When this is not handled with sensitivity for everyone’s feelings, misunderstandings and broken relationships can be the result.
Then there is AdopTexas.
The most significant difference between what I do, and the other types of adoptions mentioned above is: my long-term commitment and relationships with the birth moms I work with. I still hear from some of the very first women I worked with over 40 years ago. We have become friends and I rejoice with them in their victories and grieve over their losses. Their success, future, and happiness are what is important to me.
You won’t have to worry about being be passed around from counselor to counselor; I will counsel you personally.
I also handle all the complications, specifics, and paperwork of the entire process. I make the process seamless – rather than it being fractured/disconnected and spread across 2 or more states with many different service providers (such as large agencies, attorneys, contracted social workers and facilitators).
My commitment to you (and moms like you) started in 1981 and continues today. Just as you are selective with who you work with, so am I. Because You will be more than just a name on a piece of paper to me; You will be a part of my family.
Unlimited Emotional Support
I am always available to offer emotional support to you (and every mother I have helped) before, during and after the placement process.
Large agencies try to offer unlimited emotional support, but frequently pass mothers like you around from person to person with no continuity in counselors or ongoing relationship.
Facilitators and attorneys as well as all other unlicensed placements are even worse at providing long-term care for birth moms. In fact, this is the most concerning part of working with facilitators and attorneys and private placements.
Once the placement occurs and the contracted agency completes the required minimum amount of counseling (this may only be meeting with the birth mom one time prior to the birth of the baby and then, one time after and finally completing a counseling form), there is NO ongoing unlimited emotional support through the years. Facilitators and attorneys basically wash their hands as soon as the placement occurs and sometimes before.
So, who do you call when you are sad, or need reassurance, or encouragement through the years on the baby’s birthdays, holidays, Mother’s Day, or any day you need someone who is willing to listen and talk to you? These are all normal and real emotions and require an understanding and caring person who knows you and can be there for you during those times.
Ask yourself, “Is this a conversation I can have with the adoptive family who has my baby, the attorney who handled my adoption or a counselor hired on a temporary basis?” The answer is, No…. but I will be there for you. With over 40 years of experience working as an Adoption Maternity Counselor, for AdopTexas a Texas licensed adoption agency, I have a personal interest in the long-term happiness and success of the babies that have been placed in loving homes as well as the birth and adoptive families we work with. I have more experience than most, understanding what normal emotions are, as they relate to adoption.
If you would like to get started, or just talk to me, please call me at
325-853-8404.
Or fill out the form below, and I will respond.
Once you call me, I will:
- Give you Honest Answers to your questions about the adoption process
- Learn about and help you with your current financial needs and concerns
- Discuss your preference for the adoptive family you are wanting and help you find that “perfect” adoptive family.
- Help you develop a plan for the ongoing future relationship with the adoptive family and child.
It would be unrealistic to say making an adoption plan for your baby will be easy. This will be the most difficult decision you will ever be faced with; though if handled correctly, it can be a decision you can be proud of, knowing that you did the very best you could for your baby.
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A precious adoptive family we have been blessed to work with.
You, as a woman who may be considering placing your baby for adoption, don’t care how many adoptions AdopTexas has done, you only care about yours.
It is now and has always been our goal that every adoption is treated as if it is the only one that we will ever do and is handled with honesty, personal attention, and care.
