Nothing in my long years of law practice has been an important as representing people in adoption proceedings. Being handed a newborn infant by a mother who gave birth in the previous 48 hours and delivering the baby to adopting parents is a moving and emotional experience. Serving merely as a witness to the way adoption changes lives has been a privilege.
Adoption practice and rituals have changed dramatically over the last several decades and Georgia’s adoption laws need to be updated to reflect new openness and practices in relation to post-adoption agreements. Today, most of the physical transfers of newborns from a birth mother to adopting parents occurs in a room together with either agency representatives or adoption attorneys.
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