You've all heard the stories.

Birth mom makes the adoption plan. She matches with an adoptive family. Birth mother is secure in her plan, the adoptive family are EXSTATIC.

Birth mother gives birth to her child. She may or may not allow the adoptive family there for the birth, but in any event, they are at the hospital somewhere, waiting to meet their new bundle of joy.

Then, the adoptive family walks to the door of the birth mother's room, and gets stopped by their social worker, being told "the birth mother has changed her mind...she has made the decision to... more