Understanding the perspective of three mothers who made the decision to place their babies for adoption.

The author is a qualified and experienced counsellor who has been working with people around issues of adoption for over 25 years. He has worked as a therapist with adopted adults, adoptive parents and birth parents whose children have been adopted. The case studies presented here are of three mothers who made the hugely difficult and life changing decision not to parent their babies, but instead to place them for adoption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]