US Domestic Family Preservation
Ethica has partnered with social service organizations in two pilot cities to launch our Family Preservation initiative.
While there are many services available to parents who are affected by poverty and/or young age, if the parent(s) were considering adoption and then chose to keep their child, they often find themselves unprepared to do so.
Ethica believes that poverty, age and gender should not be, in and of themselves, reasons to place a child for adoption. Sometimes a mother and/or father just need a little help to get started.
At times, Ethica hears stories of parents who were transported to other states to give birth (usually states with “better” adoption laws, or laws that mostly benefit the adopting parents). If they choose to parent after giving birth, they are stranded in a strange state, without the support of family or friends. Generally, they cannot procure return transportation to their home state, and they lack supplies like a car seat, clothes, diapers, etc.