Ms Catherine Heaney of the Irish Family Planning Association told me about an open adoption agency in Chicago called the Cradle. It was established over 80 years ago but has only promoted more open adoption in recent years. Deputy Seán Power, when he visited Chicago, kindly went to look at the organisation for me. This is an area into which we really should put some time and thought because it makes the situation after the child has been born much more fluid than is often possible here. The Cradle organisation has a small institution where the mother can live with the child or the child can be cared for by a family. The child is not actually in the care of the state but still in the care of the mother, and somebody else just minds the child for her until she tries to decide what is the best thing she should do about her child.