I think people don’t consider adoption because
1) they think they could never let someone else raise their baby (I know that is ironic considering they could kill it, but there it is)
2) if you do adoption, you are pregnant for nine months, with all the miserable side effects and none of the happy anticipation. And everybody can see what a messed up person you are, and then they will wonder where the baby went when you give it up, and judge you for dumping your baby on someone else.
3) They’d have to find an agency or a lawyer or something, and follow through with paperwork and stuff, and act grown-up and everything.
The above is why it’s so important that they find their local Pregnancy Resource Center fast, and get the encouragement and practical assistance they need to get up their nerve and give their baby life.
You’re right. Big support is needed for a woman to maturely make an adoption plan for her baby. And big support afterwards, too, because mothers’ grieving for the absent, adopted baby can be quite lasting and significant.