Does anyone know anyone who voluntarily gave their child up for adoption?

My own birth mother did. With her first two kids. And then had me and my sister. Well, when we were 4 and 2, cps got involved again, and she didn't fight to have custody over us. She gave us up, let us be in foster care, and my foster parents won, so they adopted us a year later when it was all official. She never fought for us. She didn't care. Drugs and alcohol were more important to her and chasing men. In total there's four of us. My brother and sister (older) adopted at birth, went together Me and my sister went together and adopted a few years later

i know more people who don’t know the reasons for being put up for adoption than people who do know. i’d like to believe our birth parents wanted a better life for us than they could provide. the people that do know the reasons had birth parents that either got pregnant too young & didn’t feel they were able to take on the responsibility of a baby or their birth parents were drug addicts & needed to get help.

I had a friend who was thinking about putting her daughter for adoption Because it’s just her and her family is sort of toxic and she didn’t want her daughter to be in that situation But she didn’t go through with it

No, but I got asked quite a lot after I had my son. As he was born with multiple medical and neurological conditions and in the nicu for a couple of week, they did pressure ask a lot if I was ok and if I thought adopting him out would be better i was fairly emotional as a lot was going on but i never once thought of it but can understand if there is a lot of pressure.

I did.

@Carol💗💙 our mothers should’ve been friends. Their morals seem to align. Have kids let em rot in the system. I got lucky too after 17 homes between 2 and 12 I found my forever family. But just think of all the kids like us who didn’t. Soooo sad

They felt they had too much unworked through trauma and didn’t want to traumatise the child.

Eh she was coerced, groomed and cornered into it.

@Jennifer I was extremely lucky to only be in 2 foster homes. The second home decided to adopt us. But I know kids who have been in the system from a young age until they age out. And it's sad

My sister is adopted and her mom gave her up because she was a drug addicted. I know it was destiny because she is one of the best gifts God gave us 😭

I said no but now that i think about it, i did know someone who gave up all 3 kids before they were toddlers (all different pregnancies). She gave her eldest to her parents, middle to her brother and youngest to their family friend. She was heavily addicted to drugs and couldn’t give them a good life. The kids all know their mom and siblings and grandparents and cousins and such. In this case, I’m glad she realized raising them herself wouldn’t have provided them with the love care and support her children needed