Does the agency brag about spending a lot of money on advertising and outreach to "birth parents"?

What does this indicate?

Ask the agency how much it spends on counseling services to expectant parents before, during and after the adoption. Is it as much as the agency spends on advertising?

Don’t take the agency’s word for it. Ask them to send you a copy of their audited financial statements. These will show you exactly how much money the agency spends in different ways and whether they are making a profit on doing adoptions. If they won’t send you this, ask yourself “what are they hiding?”

Even if you don’t think you want or need counseling services, you deserve that service should you choose. If you decide afterwards that it may help to talk to someone about your feelings, wouldn’t it be nice to know you could reach back to your agency? Wouldn’t you want this for someone else who may be struggling?

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