What does surrender mean?
Surrender is a legal piece of paper stating that upon your free will that you are giving up your parental rights. Sometimes these rights are given up to the adoptive couple, sometimes to an agency, sometime to an attorney. Again this depends on the state that you give birth in, laws. Some states will have you sign consent at the hospital, agency, or lawyers office, while other states require you to sign before a judge. Also in some states you will have a revoke period after signing, again, the time allowed depends on the state laws, in other states; there is no revoke period.
