Our Beliefs
- We honor the connection adoptees have to both of their families.
- We recognize the love and joy as well as the losses and grief of adoption.
- We do not diminish one family in favor of another.
- We are flexible, understanding that needs and circumstances change.
- We set boundaries on the basis of what is best for our children.
- We understand that open adoption looks like different things for different families.
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Community Wisdom
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Community Wisdom
If I give my child up for adoption, will I still get to see my child a lot?
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How involved was/is your family in either the choice to adopt or the adoption as a whole?
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Anyone have any good books that will help me find the words to start that conversation with my son?
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Any ideas about gifts for Mother’s Day for my daughter’s first/birth mom?
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How do I go into this with both eyes open, but in a way that’s fair to myself and to my son and to his first mom?
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Recent Posts
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Looking for adult adoptees in open adoptions to survey
Posted on May 5, 2012 | No CommentsI recent received the following email from Katie Prigel Sharp of Hearts of the Matter Seminars, an organization in Missouri that provides pre-adoption trainings for prospective adoptive parents. I’m passing... -
Why we will not link to your adoption business
Posted on January 26, 2012 | 2 CommentsRecently I’ve had a flurry of requests from businesses with a primary goal of facilitating adoption who are hoping to add their link to our site. I am posting this... -
Closed-era adoptee asks open adoption questions
Posted on July 19, 2011 | 2 CommentsThis is in answer to the questions posed at WriteMindOpenHeart. You can see Lori’s answers there and get links to other answers around the blogosphere. 1. Can the adoptive parents... -
2011 Symposium Opening Adoption: Realities Possibilities & Challenges
Posted on June 17, 2011 | No CommentsOn September 23 & 24, 2011 Coordinators2inc will bring together adoption professionals, academics, students and those personally affected by adoption will meet at the University of Richmond School of Law,...