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This book is important because studies found:
More than 80%-85% of teens receive their pre-natal counseling in a health care setting where the tendency is to short-circuit the consideration of adoption. Workers either avoided, glossed over, or poorly handled the subject of adoption.
60% of pregnancy counselors never mentioned adoption while 40% gave inaccurate information.
Most social service agencies, which provide adoption counseling, do not work in such health clinics. This makes creating partnerships between pregnancy and adoption workers of paramount importance.
When accurate information was provided studies found a 19% increase in the creation of adoption plans.

Studies of birth parents who thoughtfully planned adoption and felt they were in control of the process paint a positive picture. Women who make an adoption plan are:
More likely to finish school;
Less likely to live in poverty or receive public assistance;
More likely to delay marriage longer than those who parent;
More likely to be employed 12 months after birth;
Less likely to have another unplanned pregnancy.