Why would a patient leave an adoption brochure in the reception area?

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kitta	I doubt it was left there by accident. One time I left a brochure about adopted people's searching and reunion at an infertility doctor's office....just to remind anyone who read it that children created with "donor sperm and ova" actually do have another heritage. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Laurel J	What would make them do it? Straight-up desperation. As James Thurber once said, "It is not so easy to fool little girls nowadays as it used to be." He wasn't talking about making them give up their kids, but he might as well have been. Every time I think we've made progress in adoption, something like this makes me stop and think. How far is it, really, from "Go home, forget about it and get on with your life" to "You'll grieve, and that's too damned bad"? They are literally advertising for people. Why is this legal? Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

grapesgum	Why would someone do that? The same reason that adoption agencies lurk on WEB sites looking for womb fresh infants and hopefully adoptive parents answer questions from young pregnant women with advice like "email me, I understand" (yeah, sure you do). Why? They are desperate. It is harder than heck to find infants. Young women are not forced to give their babies away to strangers as in the past decades. Families are smaller now. I know many friends who are faced with never having grandchildren. We sure as heck are not going to support losing grandchildren through adoption. In fact, quite the opposite is true. In most families these days, any baby is embraced and cherished. Regardless of the relationship of the parents. Often adoption agencies advise their customers to "network" on their own. It is like assigning them busy work to keep them off the agency's back. In fact, in past on Y!A there were regular posters who pimped for their agencies here. Sorry that you had to read that garbage. Hopefully, no one else was subjected to that trash before you found it. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

mom1	I've read all your other posts, it seems the church folks want your children. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

H******	They're networking. Like the predators who left the dear birthmother calling card in the dish with the tip for the pregnant waitress a while back. It's disgusting Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Jane Doe	Why won't you treat pregnant women? what is the big deal about leaving an adoption brochure how about one for abortion, you would like that one instead Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

LinnyG	Maybe our favorite "AGAPE" employee goes to doctor's offices to try to scam for babies, too. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Tonia	They probably just forgot it or left it hoping others will read it. So what. Are you trying to censor what people READ? Please get off the internet... because it's all about free speech on here. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

...	I would think it's pretty benign if you don't even treat pregnant women. I would think the most likely cause would be someone was handed it somehow and it was dropped there. I was at an event for Christmas and LDS was there to offer "supportive counseling" for someone with an unexpected pregnancy. They were passing out balloons with cards attached giving them to any woman who is of child baring age..... I felt my uterus cinch up. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

devils angel	most likely it was left by accident why would you not support addoption and why would you refuse to see someone who is pregnant? that is some one who is starting a family. hope i never have to go to this clinic Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

monkeykitty83	You refuse to treat pregnant women and refer women elsewhere unless they prove they are NOT pregnant? That kind of makes me lean toward the "accident" theory. I realize people do all kinds of unethical things to find women to relinquish, but deliberately catering to women who are presumably NOT pregnant wouldn't result acquiring a newborn. It's possible it's someone who deliberately leaves adoption literature everywhere. Some people leave info about their pet issue all over the place, so I'm not ruling that out. Someone left a religious tract on my car windshield one time, and I'm sure it was nothing personal. Maybe they think if they just blanket the world, someone will bite. But... assuming some sort of malicious motive from this specific brochure really seems like it would be reaching. If you were a maternity clinic, yes, I would assume it was intentional. But the brochure was left at a medical practice where the women ARE NOT pregnant. Are the women going to relinquish their complete lack of baby? I doubt this was any kind of targeted advertising, because the audience simply doesn't fit the goal for that. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Mama of 3, foster mama to many	I don't see why it seems like a bit conspiracy? People carry all kinds of junk around and leave them places. I once left one of those religious handouts that Jehovah's Witnesses give you at my mums house, I just kind of shoved it in my bag and it got left there when I was getting something out of it. It sounds like you're being a bit paranoid, lol. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Randy B	It could have been left there for any number of reasons and I wouldn't read too much into it. - It could have been used as a book mark by someone waiting for the Doctor and they forgot it when they were called in for their appointment. - It could have been picked up along the way, read and discarded by the reader. - It could have been left on purpose by someone who believes in adoption. There are those of us out here, surprising as it may be. Any number of other reasons could apply too. People who have strong enough feelings for something, be it religion, adoption, abortion... will get their message out any way they can the same way that people who leave book marks around will leave them wherever too. I really don't see it as that big a deal. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Jennifer L	If it was only one brochure, I'd guess it was accidentally left there by a patient. If it was more than one, I'd say it was left there on purpose. That, and the fact that it's a family practice clinic, not an OB/GYN office, leads me to think it was an accident. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

avi	Oh, it's just some nut. I work at a public library and religious extremists leave religious pamphlets hidden all over the place in an attempt to get unsuspecting patrons to "discover" them. Just toss it. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No