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Is Counseling For Birth Parents at Adoption Attorneys Kirsh & Kirsh, P.C. (“Kirsh & Kirsh”) Different than Adoption Agency Counseling?

Yes! Some adoption agencies REQUIRE expectant mother to meet with a counselor. Whether you live in Indiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, or Kentucky, Kirsh & Kirsh does NOT require counseling, although we strongly recommend that a pregnant woman who is considering giving her baby up for adoption or more correctly, making an adoption plan or placing her baby up for adoption, speak with a counselor. Few decisions in one’s life will be more consequential. It only makes sense to get as much guidance and insight as possible before making such a significant decision, but there is a big difference between seeing an independent counselor recommended by Kirsh & Kirsh and a social worker employed by an adoption agency. Adoption agencies get paid a placement fee if an adoption takes place. Therefore, a counselor or social worker employed by an adoption agency has an inescapable conflict of interest. While a counselor employed by an adoption agency may subscribe to the highest standards of professional conduct and, probably, most of them do, their employer – the adoption agency — only collects a fee if the birth mother gives her baby up for adoption, or, more correctly, makes an adoption plan or places her baby for adoption. A birth parent might wonder if an agency employed social worker, mindful of the financial needs of the agency, provided the birth parent unbiased advice based upon the birth parent’s best interests or if the financial needs of the adoption agency influenced the counseling the birth parent received.

Doesn’t Kirsh & KIrsh earn a fee if the adoption takes place? Yes. However, the big difference is that Kirsh & Kirsh does NOT have social workers on staff. Kirsh & Kirsh refers the pregnant women with whom they work to independent counselors. The Kirsh & Kirsh referred counselors get paid whether or not the birth parent proceeds with an adoption. Those counselors do not have a stake in the outcome of birth mother’s decision the way an adoption agency has a stake in her adoption decision.

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If you would like to explore adoption, contact us at Kirsh & Kirsh. We have helped many women with adoption plans over the last 35+ years. We have lots of wonderful, carefully screened, loving families (married, single, Lesbian, and Gay) who cannot wait to welcome a baby into their hearts and homes.

We will always treat you will care, confidentiality, kindness, and respect. Of the many pregnant women with whom we have worked over years, many, if not most, have needed help paying their living expenses while they were pregnant and during their postpartum recovery, which our prospective adoptive parent clients have gladly provided.

You can call, text and or email us anytime. To contact us—call: 317-575-5555, text: 317-721-2030, email: [email protected], or Facebook message: https://www.facebook.com/KirshandKirsh/. We answer our office phone 24 hours a day, every single day. We try to respond to emails and text messages within minutes of receipt.

If I Am Placing My Baby For Adoption Do I Have To Speak With A Counselor?

Some adoption agencies and states require adoption counseling for pregnant women considering placing their baby for adoption. We, at Adoption Attorneys Kirsh & Kirsh, P.C. (“Kirsh & Kirsh”), do not require that the pregnant women, who have contacted us to help them find an adoptive family for their babies, participate in counseling. We offer counseling and, in fact, recommend counseling, but we do not require it. It can be overwhelming for a woman with an unplanned pregnancy to force her into counseling if she does not want to have any. Therefore Kirsh & Kirsh does not require it, whether you live in Indiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, or Kentucky.

Does Kirsh & Kirsh recommend counseling and make it available? Yes, of course! Over the last 35+ years of handling adoptions, involving numerous birth parents, we have found that those birth parents who make a parenting or adoption plan based on good reasons come to peace with their decision more easily than those who make a decision based solely upon emotions. Making a well-reasoned decision allows a mom to validate her decision by reviewing her reasons and knowing that while she may have second thoughts, her reasons are still valid, and, therefore, she made the right decision. A woman who lets her heart rather than her head guide her decision will have nothing to fall back on when her emotions fade, as emotions usually do.

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If you like to know more about adoption options, contact us at Kirsh & Kirsh. We have helped numerous women with adoption plans over the last 35+ years. We have many loving families (single, gay, Lesbian, and married couples) carefully screened, who cannot wait to welcome a baby into their hearts and homes.

We will always treat your situation with care, confidentiality, kindness, and respect. Of the many pregnant women with whom we have worked over years, many, if not most, have needed help paying their living expenses while they were pregnant and during their postpartum recovery, which our prospective adoptive parent clients have gladly provided.

Who are Kirsh & Kirsh and What Do They Do?

Adoption Attorneys Kirsh & Kirsh, P.C. (“Kirsh & Kirsh”) practice adoption law throughout Indiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky, including adoptions with other states. We help pregnant women find loving, secure, carefully screened homes for their babies and prospective adoptive parents find babies to welcome into their homes and hearts.

Kirsh & Kirsh provides the same adoption services as adoption agencies, except we do not perform adoptive home studies, supervise adoptive placements, or provide counseling. Wait, Kirsh & Kirsh does not provide counseling to expectant mothers? We do not employ a counselor on our staff because we think expectant mothers and birth mothers should have the option of speaking with an unbiased, independent counselor. We do, however, routinely refer women to reputable counseling providers. Likewise, we do not provide prenatal OB care, deliver babies, or perform newborn hearing tests, as Kirsh & Kirsh relies upon experts to handle those aspects of an adoption, birth, and postpartum care of newborns.

Unlike some adoption facilitators you might find on the Internet, we have a brick and mortar office, not just a virtual, Internet presence. Steve Kirsh started handling adoptions more than 35 years ago. Shortly thereafter Joel Kirsh, Steve’s brother joined him. More recently, Steve’s son, Grant Kirsh, and Steve’s other brother, Rob Kirsh, joined the practice. In addition to having 4 adoption attorneys, Kirsh & Kirsh has 7 other staff members, who also only work on adoption matters. On most days, you will find our four-legged, fury staff members at our office — Yogi and Hanna (depicted in the photo), Wilson, and Louie at the office. Honestly, they spend most of their time at the office asleep!

Please review our more than 400, 5-Star Google Reviews.

If you would like to explore adoption, contact us at Kirsh & Kirsh. We have helped numerous women with adoption plans over the last 35+ years. We have lots of wonderful, carefully screened, loving families who cannot wait to welcome a baby into their hearts and homes.

We will always treat you will kindness and respect. Of the many pregnant women with whom we have worked over years, many, if not most, have needed help paying their living expenses while they were pregnant and during their postpartum recovery.

You can call, text and or email us anytime. To contact us—call: 317-575-5555, text: 317-721-2030, email: [email protected], or Facebook message: https://www.facebook.com/KirshandKirsh/. We answer our office phone 24 hours a day, every single day. We try to respond to emails and text messages within minutes of receipt.