The advantages and disadvantages of open adoption can affect adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive families in different ways. Open adoption can provide ongoing family connections, access to important information, and opportunities for children to understand their background. At the same time, maintaining contact can bring challenges involving boundaries, changing expectations, privacy, and difficult emotions. The…
Did you know that about 95% of all U.S. home infant adoptions today involve some degree of openness between adoptive and birth families? This radical change from the closed adoption system of yesteryears is a testament to increasing awareness of the positive power of transparency for everyone involved in adoption. An open adoption agreement…
Are you considering open adoption? That’s nice; however, you must prepare yourself well for this life-changing journey you want to embrace. This is because, as much as open adoption offers the birth parents a great opportunity to maintain a relationship, it also comes with some rules and expectations. To help you make this journey smoother,…