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Dominique White is shown with her husband and first child. (photo: Courtesy of Dominique White)
By Susan Klemond, National Catholic Register, Nov. 15, 2024
Susan Klemond is a freelance writer living in West St. Paul, Minnesota, who writes news and feature articles for the Register, OSV Newsweekly and The Catholic Spirit, the archdiocesan paper for St. Paul-Minneapolis. She also has worked in marketing, editing and magazine production.
Maternal decision to place her birth son in adoption has been life-giving for him, his adoptive family and her own family, mother says.
When Dominique White went to a Texas Planned Parenthood after discovering she was pregnant at 17, a staff person told her that she had two options: either abort her child or raise him herself.
Believing that these were her only choices, she decided with the encouragement of her family to raise her eldest son as a single parent.
Several years later, White found herself in another unintended pregnancy, but learned that she had a third option in private adoption, which wasn’t an “undesirable last resort” but a way that gave her power to give her son a good future.
Since she chose to place her birth son from her second unplanned pregnancy in open adoption in 2016, White has been in regular contact with his adoptive family, and he and his older half-brother share a close relationship, said White, now 29, who lives in the Austin, Texas, area. …
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