Find valuable information about placing children for adoption together
No matter how much you love your child, raising young children is never easy – especially when your living situation is not ideal. Add on top an unexpected pregnancy, and parenting might suddenly feel impossible. If you are struggling to take care of the child you already have, and worry about how you’ll manage with two, you may begin exploring placing children for adoption together. Reach out to a Texas adoptions counselor to learn more about combined infant, older child and toddler adoption.
Most private Texas adoption agencies specialize in newborn and infant adoption, while state agencies focus on toddlers and older children who are removed from their parents for various reasons. However, Legacy believes in supporting mothers, no matter what their needs. If you are considering adoption for both your baby and their sibling or siblings, we can help.
Reasons a mother may explore placing children for adoption together
Our primary goal is to provide help and hope to mothers facing an uncertain future. Serious financial strain, health concerns, addiction, incarceration or an unstable home life may make you feel that you can’t provide the best life for your kids.
For some women, motherhood just turns out to be a lot harder than they expected, and they love their children so much they want a better life for them than they can provide. Many women realize this before their children are born, but others may not until their child is a bit older.
If Child Protective Services is involved, you might worry about your children going into the foster care system, and ultimately into a permanent adoptive family that you will never get the chance to know. Choosing combined infant, child and toddler adoption gives you control in intentionally placing your children for adoption together. It can also ensure that you get to choose a family for your children who can provide them with an abundant future.
Important things to consider with older child and toddler adoption
A Texas adoptions counselor can help you learn about placing your children for adoption together, with no pressure. The decision will always be yours and yours alone.
If you do choose adoption, you will get peace of mind from knowing that your children will always have each other. You can choose the family who will raise your children, and you can still be part of their lives if you choose to.
However, it’s important to be sensitive to certain factors in placing children for adoption together, especially when it comes to an older child.
- Adoptive parents of older children will need additional counseling, training and education. Many of Legacy’s waiting families would welcome two or more children with loving arms, while others have prepared themselves for newborn adoption.
- The health, family history and custody arrangements of the older child need to be considered at a greater level than infant adoption.
- The emotions involved in the separation and adoption process for an older child are especially difficult. Your Texas adoptions counselor is here to support you as you take the time you need to really think through the implications of this decision.
If you have questions about placing children for adoption together, please call us at (817) 704-0239. Talking to a Texas adoptions counselor at Legacy is free, and you will be connected to the medical, financial and legal support you may need.
