Does the agency ever place children through legal risk adoption?
Yes. Regardless of the state in which the child is born, the child is usually ready to be discharged from the hospital before adoption surrenders can legally be signed. Many of the women who place with Full Circle’s assistance are already mothers, and they know the importance of bonding. They do not want the child going to foster care. They will ask you to take a legal risk placement of the child because they want you to care for the child from the beginning. Most state laws, with some exceptions (e.g. Washington State), do not allow birthmothers take the first steps to terminate their rights until a number of days after the birth of the child. Most birthmothers ask adoptive families to begin bonding at the hospital and for them to take a legal risk placement between the time of the hospital discharge and the time when the adoption paperwork can be completed. While this is a legal risk placement, most of the time this does not feel uncomfortable because the birthparents have shared con
