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Adoption Story Videos
While we do our best to help you understand how adoption works and how it can work for you, learning about adoption from people who’ve gone through the process can be even better.
The real truth.
The Cradle hosts a YouTube channel where you can view testimonials from birthparents, adoptive families, hear from adopted children, and listen to adoption professionals.
Visit our YouTube site at www.youtube.com/thecradlerocks.
In the video on this page, Jessica M., a birthmom, discusses her decision and her open adoption: Well, I was 18 years old, I was a freshman in college, I was going to Purdue University, and I was living the life of a typical 18-year-old at the time: very involved in the social life, in going to school, and I had just started a new relationship with my boyfriend at the time, and it was about a few months in that I found out that we were, that we had an unplanned pregnancy.
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