📌Alternative Care Options

💥There are alternative care options available for people who cannot parent their child, but do not want to permanently terminate their parental rights to adoptive parents they do not know. 

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Research shows that children do better when they remain in their extended families, kinship networks, and communities. 

Some of these alternative care options can also support people who might just need more time to figure out how to parent. 

Most adoption agencies and professionals will not inform pregnant people about these alternative care options. Some agencies will even discourage them, but you have the right to consider and pursue all available options for the care of your child.

📢They include:

Informal Temporary Care 

Respite Care & Crises Nurseries

Temporary & Legal Guardianship 

Kinship Care & Kinship Adoption