I am a birth mother. I came from abuse. I was offered this option while I was pregnant, along with abortion, and keeping my son. Just like this. Like this ad, like it was nothing, that is how people who "offered it" portrayed it. I kept my son for 2 years, and when faced with homelessness for both of us, a CPS worker told me that if something happened to me, they might place my baby with an abuser, then offered this "option" in the same manner, to sign off my rights so my baby didnt end up on the winter streets OR with a sex predator. A woman in birthparents forum responded to the post this came from, and asked, WHY not offer to take in and protect BOTH mom and baby, at a shelter then? THAT OPTION was NEVER offered, if ANYONE had told me that that was a 4th possibility, I would NEVER have given my son up. Instead, after the baby was born, support was mentioned for us maybe 3 times in over 6 months, adoption and other placement was pushed HEAVILY as "doing best for my child." For anyone who may have needed to see this, some moms DESPERATELY wanted their baby, your mom may have desperately wanted you, and was NOT offered a way past things except the loss of her child.

As a adoptee, my own mom repeatedly pucked drunk abusive sex offender men, and lost 6 kids after me, 1 miscarriage and 7 babies total, so I doubt that was the case, she was NOT going to get her shit together, and stayed with a drunk abuser to this day (she says hes recovered, she said all of them were), qnd would probably still be pushing out future adoptees if her womb would still let her, so no, not all moms either. But, this is WHY we find out. To answer this question, was it this, or was it a dofferent version of my failed bio? This is what I think, we really are asking when we think about meeting our bios.