Abstract
The National Academy of Sciences report on teenage pregnancy is woefully inadequate in its coverage of the adoption issue. It usually characterizes this option as a last resort and gives scant attention to current research and literature on adoption. A study carried out by the Child Welfare League of America found that over 1/3 of independent adoption facilitators never discuss alternatives to adoption with the biological mother. Such facilitators either should be required to provide adequate counseling and postplacement services or should be eliminated from consideration as service providers. Fortunately the current policy of many organizations is to refer pregnant adolescents interested in adoption to voluntary or public social service agencies rather than to independent facilitators.
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