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 HERE IS MY STORY

 I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy (below) October 18, 2006. Against my desires and due to the force of my parents causing me extreme emotional and psychological stress I released my child for adoption. My entire pregnancy was filled with those who I thought loved me telling me horrible things to convince me that I was unworthy of having my child. I was told I would be on welfare, my child and I would not have a place to live; I was told I would never live out my dream of going to medical school. These are horrible things to say to anyone, especially a pregnant woman. I spent my entire pregnancy alone, in a city and state I was unfamiliar with. I had just moved to South Carolina when I discovered I was pregnant. I had no friends and no family in the area. True to form, in this day and age, the minute my son's father found out I was pregnant he did everything possible to make me miserable and to distance himself from us. This included trying to force me to have an abortion. No one in my family was supportive of me keeping my child. What was supposed to be the most beautiful time in a woman's life was the most depressing and lonely time of my life. To make things worse, not only did I spend my entire pregnancy alone, I gave birth by cesarean section ALONE. I'm saying all this because I want people to know the pain I've gone through.

No one in the adoption world tries to help you keep your baby. Your baby means money, because some well to do family is willing and able to shell out thousands to take your child away from you. The lawyers and agencies involved thrive on young woman, who like me don't have their family's support in keeping and raising the child on their own. To counter the things I was told by my family, I would not have been on welfare. I'm a college graduate with a very good job in the hospital that makes good money. I'm not a silly little teenager that has nothing going in her life; I'm 24 years old and have been taking care of myself since I graduated college. I've never been arrested, never taken any type of drugs ever in my life. I've never even touched a cigarette. I also studied for and took my MCAT (medical entrance exam), during my pregnancy while working a full time job that required me to travel at least 3 times a week sometimes more.  Now tell me how this makes me unqualified to be a mother to my son. I had to give you this background information so you can see just how unjust the system of adoption is and how easily I was manipulated by not only my family but the agencies and lawyers involved, during a very vital time of my life.

I'm not the only one who has suffered at the hands of adoption, but I plan to be the last. This is my fight and I ask that you join me in making things right for young women who find themselves in a similar situation as mine. Let me also say that I am not completely against adoption. I'm just against how adoptions are handled and how the mother of the child is treated post adoption. (more on that later)

Thank you for visiting and God Bless. 

Here is an article written about my son and I.

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