What Is Closed Adoption? Note These Things Now.
In one of my previous posts, I wrote a post comparing open vs closed adoption. But what is closed adoption or open adoption? What are the processes and why should you choose it over open adoption?
In this post, we will answer those questions. First, we will answer the question “what is closed adoption?”
What Is Closed Adoption?
Closed adoption is the type of adoption where the birth mother didn’t agree to have any communication with the adoptive parents after adoption for the reasons best known to her.
In a closed adoption, nothing like contact information will be shared between the adoptive parents and the birth parents.
And once the adoption process is concluded, everybody goes their separate ways without any hope to hear from each other forever.
Closed adoption is no more common these days, as all birth mothers never want to lose contact again with their children.
However, as part of your adoption plan, your adoption professional will request you to specify the level of communication you want.
Now that your question “what is closed adoption has been answered,” let’s look at the second question how do you go around closed adoption?
