The adoption facilitators wanted to guarantee the surrender of your baby so your baby may have been taken immediately into foster care with no explanation and kept there with the location kept secret from you so the social worker could use “abandonment” as a basis for revoking your parental rights. You may have been told that the adoption was “final” and found out later that it wasn’t. You may have been told that your baby had died at birth and later found out this was false. You may have been told that there are no alternatives or you were led to believe that a promise of open adoption was a legally binding agreement and the adoption later closed. You were more than likely told you would “get over it” and be able to return to your “normal life”. The documents may have been signed by someone else forging your signature without your knowledge or consent or you were informed after signing a pre birth consent that it would be held binding in a court of law.

Withholding information from the birth mother was to have the birth mother surrender by withholding known information about risks or negative consequences.

Information may have been withheld about options that would enable you to keep your baby such as financial assistance, temporary foster care, foster care for you and your child together, temporary guardianship, or filing through court for child support from your baby’s father.
Information may have been withheld about your right to independent legal counsel to explain the legal documents you were signing and the legal ramifications of it and to be present in the room to protect your rights as you signed it. You may not have been informed about the existence of a “revocation of consent” period. You may not have been permitted to read the documents you were signing and you were not given a copy of the documents you signed. You may have been pressured to decided on adoption while still pregnant or your right to take as many days, weeks, or months as you needed before deciding on adoption.