Weekend Wisdom: How Common Are Failed Adoption Matches?
Question: Last week my husband and I flew across the country to meet our potential adoptive baby. We had been matched 5 weeks earlier and were full of happiness. We’ve always known the risks a failed adoption match, but during this experience, we didn’t think it would be the case. It was. Despite being in contact with birthmom via email and text, getting her updates and baby pictures, she ghosted us and the agency. We met her and birthfather, she let us take pictures holding the baby and gave the agency’s social worker some missing paperwork. She had a change of heart last minute which is fine, but what made things more painful was that she never informed us.
Resources:
- Failed Adoption Matches: How Common? How Costly? How to Survive?
- Twelve Signs that an Adoption May Fail
- A Panel of Birth Moms Talk About Adoption
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