Reply #38: Just wanted to ad my 2 cents [View All]

My sister is currently pregnant and is going thru a divorce, she visited a women's sheltor that has a counseling program in regards to single mothers expecting. We are white and this sheltor is in a really heavy occupied white town and county. She comes back from the first visit and she basically say's they try to convince these young women to give up their babies for adoption in a round about kind of way, telling about all the hardships they will face being a single mother. Not really offering any advice or solutions, they just say like hey we have info on adoption services which might be best for the child. Basically most of the young women there were teenagers and my sister was the oldest expecting mother there being in her late 20's. She has a good job with middle class pay and can afford to raise this child on her own, her and baby won't be living in some huge house but they won't be living in section 8 apartments. So this was never an option in her judgment. I guess she was directed towards this place from a cousin we have. I figure out that our cousin probably knew about this place because she adopted a child about 20 some years ago, and maybe this place had some connection to it. I know for a fact our cousin didn't know they do this kind of stuff or she wouldn't suggested for my sister to go there, She was just thinking it might be good for her to meet other single expecting mothers there. So what does anyone else think, does this place sound like their in it to help women or are they in to get a cut out of the adoption cost, I personally think their in it to get a cut.