When is placing a baby up for adoption the right choice?
Lying on the birth certificate about who you child’s father is is wrong. It is not in the best long-term interests of your child. Your child may very well want to know who his or her father is one day. If you lie on the birth certificate and have died, how will your child ever find out? No parent ever knows how long they will be around. Have you already been given a terminal prognosis? If not, why not give your child whatever years you have left? Are there family members (god-parents) that might raise the child if it becomes impossible for you? At least the child would still have family around, family that could tell them about you. There are more options here than adoption. And certainly than adoption to strangers, the worst possible option. ETA: On another question you wrote: “I have a nine year old son who has never met his father. I was 25 when I got pregnant with him and I couldn’t bring myself to get an abortion either. He sometimes asks me about his father and I have felt it bes
