We promote adoption as a positive option for those facing unplanned pregnancies.
June 2024 News
Happy Fathers' Day!
Your role begins way before your baby is born. You can love your child while s/he is still in the womb ...
Consider this:
Men are the #1 influencers when women facing unplanned, unwanted pregnancies decide on a plan. Yes, women in relationships ask their male partners for input 74% of the time.
In a survey of 1,000 US men who knew about their partner’s pregnancy ...
Happy Father's Day
YOUR gentle encouragement could make all the difference!
*42% of men whose partners had an abortion encouraged or strongly urged the woman to do so.
*31% say they didn’t give any advice at all.
*27% say they advised or strongly urged their partner not to go through with the abortion.
Unsuccessfully.
Men ARE involved. And if they suggest adoption, they can even choose parents and STAY involved in their child's upbringing.
Let's encourage them to speak up.
Happy Fathers' Day!
This year, the Idaho State Legislature passed our three bills to increase awareness about adoption and assist birth mothers. Often, States will use other States' trailblazing bills as templates -- but only if they know about them. Getting the word out is most efficiently done at a conference where lawmakers are gathered. Lila Rose's LiveAction Pro-Life Lawmakers Summit is just such a place!
I'm thrilled to be invited to share at this unique event.
We've been working with Live Action to add an adoption track this year. And I'm thrilled to be invited to share our successes before 75+ Lawmakers from around the country. They will attend free of charge, so the speakers help to fund the Summit.
Will you help make this happen? Please donate here.
Help One Child Mother's Day Brunch
This beautiful ministry serves foster and adoptive Moms in Silicon Valley. They celebrated and encouraged an entire roomful of 'second Moms' with a special brunch, and I was honored to be the keynote speaker. Missed it?? Here's the video!
Learn more about Help One Child. They're at HelpOneChild.org
The Reason for our Policy Work
Last Spring we talked with Idaho's Superintendent of Education. She fully supported bringing adoption education into the classroom and asked if we could help her find a curriculum. So we researched a dozen different health ed / sex ed courses for her and found nothing that educated on adoption. Then we talked with a few of those content providers and asked them if they would add it, and the responses were not promising.
That's why we turned to legislation. With the support of Superintendent Debbie Critchfield's office, that route was the most efficient. Now our suggestion to teach current adoption practices (when they discuss contraception) is now law in Idaho.
The Strategy behind our Policy Work
While these States are saying ‘no’ to abortion, we encourage them to say ‘yes’ to adoption!
We hope to enact "pro-adoption" legislation nationally. We're so grateful for our success in Idaho, where we got three bills passed to help birth mothers and to build awareness about adoption.
Our early supporters, the Lt Gov Scott Bedke and Senator Julie VanOrden, both invited us to come back next session and tackle a second set of legislative priorities. So exciting!
Clearly, the time is right for this work! And, with your support, we will keep going!
Imagine if these States made it easier to choose adoption!
The Officer Tatum Show
Brandon Tatum takes a break from his special issue on crime, “Crime is Up”, to interview me on May 10, as a Mothers’ Day tribute!
Listen here. See 39:25 into the hour.
Morning Light show, Salt & Light Catholic Radio, May 20, 2024
Brian, Hope and I talk adoption legislation just passed in Idaho. Listen here. It starts at 6:40 into the show.
The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption announced their 18th Annual Most Adoption-Friendly Workplaces, recognizing employers who raise the bar in providing adoption & foster care benefits.
Check out the data!
Learn more and
view breakout lists by size, industry, paid leave, foster care benefits and impact.
Employers that completed the survey offer an average of:
$16,422 to reimburse adoption costs,
9.6 weeks of paid leave for adoptive parents
9.7 weeks of paid leave for foster parents.
Are You a Birth Mother??
BIRTH MOM SURVEY HERE
If you have ever placed a baby for adoption, please take a minute to complete this survey about post-placement support for birth parents.
We want your input!
Pro-Choice Pro-Adoption
It's Time for a Loving, Positive Response to Unplanned Pregnancy.
Pro-Family Pro-Adoption
A Christian's Guide to Unplanned Pregnancy Options.
Buy them on Amazon.
Read the reviews on Amazon, and submit your own! (That really helps improve our search rankings!)
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WE NEED YOU!!
How can you help? Here are our top three requests:
1. BUY THE BOOK. It was released in National Adoption Month! You can buy it now on Amazon.
2. LEAVE A REVIEW ON AMAZON.
You can help spread the word about this book by posting a brief comment on Amazon. That helps SO much because it elevates the book in search results. And it only takes a minute!
3. HELP PROMOTE THE BOOK.
Now that it's published, there are many opportunities for you to help promote the book on FB and Insta.
Check out our library of social media posts we made for you, or simply share the book with a friend.
Phrase of the Day: Open Adoption
Open adoption is a form of adoption in which the biological and adoptive families have each other's contact information and varying degrees of contact with each other, by phone, in person and/or through social media.
OPEN ADOPTION;
It's Not Like the Olden Days!
All of this is about spreading the word about open adoption -- a reasonable option for women facing unplanned pregnancy. The 1970s and 80s were all about closed adoptions. Then we discovered the beauty of open adoption. Learn more about open adoption in this short video.
DID YOU KNOW?
- Fewer than 0.5% of women facing unplanned pregnancy make an adoption plan?
- When they do, it's because an adult in their life encouraged them to consider adoption?
- There are over one million U.S. couples waiting now to adopt?
Check out our website at www.UnplannedGood.org/
Comments? Email us, at UnplannedGood@gmail.com
Submit stories, testimonials, questions or comments.
Why are we doing this?
Young women are 50% more likely to make an adoption plan when the trusted adult in their life suggests it to them. Otherwise, most girls don't give it a minute's thought, and choose between abortion or single parenting. That's why we need to get this on the radar of more people.
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"My Mom encouraged me, and that made all the difference!
I needed to know that she'd stand by me through this and support the adoption plan."
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Thank you so much for your continued encouragement & support of UPG.
HAPPY FATHERS DAY!
Terri
About Unplanned Good
We promote adoption as a positive option for those facing unplanned pregnancies. It can be so very good (and beautiful!) for all involved.
Unplanned Good is reaching out to both teens and their parents, to let them know that adoption is an option. Studies have shown that young women are 50% more likely to see their pregnancy through and make an adoption plan when an adult suggests this path.
Please visit our site, and pass it on. Read the encouraging, heartfelt stories there. Send in your own story, and ask a friend to do the same.
