Welcome to the site of Adoption Connections. If you are considering adoption for a child, whether an unborn child or a child or children in your care, please be assured that we would love to help you in any way.
Whether you are just starting the process of information gathering .. or have been considering making an adoption for months or even years .. we would welcome the opportunity to correspond with you. You can email us, call us at 765-288-3111 or toll free at 1-877-894-0993, or you can even text our Founder Rebecca Bruce, an adoption attorney, at 765.702.3857 or Rebecca’s Advocate for Expectant / Placing Parents, Sue Brogan, at 765-623-8496. We are available at all hours of the day to communicate with you. We will do our best to respond to your calls or texts as soon as possible.
Below you will find some frequently asked questions and brief answers. We hope this will assist you in learning more about adoption as well as in determining what is truly best for you and your child or children.
Remember, the choice for your child is yours to make. If you want to contact us for more information, there is of course no obligation to make an adoption plan.
I am considering adoption but I do not know where to start. Can you help?
Absolutely! We would love the opportunity to talk with you about adoption. Pressure free. We can sit down with you or talk with you on the phone for as long as needed to answer your questions. You are not obligated to make an adoption plan. If the baby is not born yet, the law in Indiana would not allow you to sign a voluntary consent to adoption until after the baby is born. If your child is in your care now, we can move as slowly or as quickly as you need to make sure you are confident that you are making the best decision for you and for your child. If you want us to help you make an adoption plan, you will be working with adoption attorney Rebecca Bruce, who will be your attorney and legal advocate in the process, and one of our Advocates who will walk alongside you to help you with your financial, physical and emotional needs. We will make sure you have all of the information you need to have peace of mind in the process and we will endeavor to help you find the perfect family for your child, if you choose to make an adoption plan.
Do I get to pick the adoptive family for my child? How do I do that?
Yes, you pick the family! You will be able to choose among many fine families. The process is non-threatening from the get-go.
We will work with you to gather some information about you and about the type of family for which you think you are looking. Then, you simply view the written profile presentations of carefully screened and home study approved waiting families until you find a family (or more) that you want more information about.
You can choose how to obtain more information also: whether by meeting them, talking to them on the phone, emailing them – you choose what feels comfortable to you.
If you find a family that you like and want to make a plan for them to adopt your child, and they say “yes!”, then we “match” you and your child with that family and take the next steps in adoption at the appropriate time (i.e., after the baby is born, or if the child is already in your care then we move forward in a legal and mutually agreeable manner).
Is there a fee for the adoption services?
Placing parents do not pay for adoption services, no. Nor do you pay for legal costs.
In some instances, adoptive parents are also willing and legally able to provide some financial assistance to placing parents for reasonable and necessary living expenses like housing, utilities and food.
Also, if you do not have medical insurance, adoptive parents can pay for your prenatal care and the costs of labor and delivery.
Roller coaster emotions are very normal for placing parents. Between hormones and all of the feelings of anxiety, grief, loss, guilt, anger, helplessness, hopelessness — these feelings that so often plague women who are experiencing an unplanned pregnancy or just overwhelming circumstances in life that make parenting a child so difficult — it is no wonder.
But to answer your question: Yes, we will help you. Sue Brogan, Advocate to Expectant / Placing Parents will be with you each step of the way helping you navigate your emotional ups and downs and put your emotions in proper perspective for you in your unique situation. You are a unique person, there is no one else like you. She understands that. She will provide you emotional support as you need it. She may meet with you or talk with you on the phone very frequently or … just regularly. She has a lot of experience helping women navigate pregnancy, adoption, post-pregnancy, and related issues.
What a good question! As it turns out, we can help with this! We have birth mothers who are willing to talk to you. Just call us at 765-288-3111 or email us a info@adoption-connections.co to ask us to help connect you with other birth mothers who have placed a child for adoption. If you prefer to text, you can text us at 765-702-3857 or at 765-623-8496.
Finally, one of our clients who made an adoption plan for a baby girl in 2015 has written a poem called “My Sacrifice” and has given us permission to share it here.
Note: Indiana has some laws that make it illegal for adoption facilitators (i.e., any person or organization that is not licensed to offer adoption services) to offer you adoption services. In fact, effective July 1st, 2010, only Indiana adoption attorneys and Indiana adoption agencies can lawfully offer Indiana placing parents adoption services. This is why our Founder Rebecca Bruce would be YOUR attorney if you choose to work with us. This law is for everyone’s protection and we hope that if you do decide to look into making an adoption plan, you will contact us and allow us the privilege of working with you.
We want to hear from you. If you would like more information about Adoption Connections, we hope you will call us at 765-288-3111 (toll free for placing parents at 877-894-0993) or email us.
Indiana musician and proud adoptive father Scott Rudicel ("Rudi" to his friends and fans of all ages) generously "gave" his song The Best "Me" You Can Be to Adoption Connections so we could play it on our website. Click below to play this great song that epitomizes why placing parents choose adoption and why adopting parents build their families in this awesome manner. While children are all unique, we work together: Adoption Connections, placing parents, adopting parents and others; to help each individual child Be "The Best "Me" You Can Be. Thanks, Rudi!