How HOPE for Children Co-Plans with Birth Parents
HOPE for Children has a deep respect and admiration for birth parents who sacrifice their own personal desires for the well-being and good of the child. HOPE for Children is trying to imitate the way we think Jesus would treat birth parents.
Our general process is for the birth parents to select the adoptive parents from the picture portfolio books. Sometimes the birth parents will want to meet the adoptive parents. The meeting is usually at a restaurant where information for the good of the child is exchanged (no last names or addresses are exchanged). Oftentimes the adoptive parents will meet with the birth parents once, twice, or three times around the time of the birth of the baby.
After the adoption, HOPE for Children and the birth parents expect the adoptive parents to send pictures to HOPE for Children on a regular basis. (Usually this is 4 – 6 times during the first year.) Thereafter it is appropriate at Christmas, Mother’s Day, and on the child’s birthday. These pictures are extremely meaningful to the birth parents. It helps them feel at peace about the child’s well being.
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