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.
Recent Comments
Community Wisdom Archive
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Community Wisdom
I resent our son's biofather for contesting the adoption. Now what?
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Any advice on re-establishing contact with son's first mom?
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Should I make my daughter come with me to visit her placed sibling?
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How do I tell my son's birth parents that we're divorcing?
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Why do adoptive parents close adoptions?
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How much say do I have in first family relationships?
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What are the biological mother's obligations to their adult child after being reunited?
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How do I cope with people who want to make my child a poster child for his/her issues?
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How can we move forward with finalization?
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How do we make sense of the adoption laws?
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First Mom and child's birthday
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My son's first mom wants unsupervised visits but I have huge safety concerns. How do I handle telling her no?
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What gifts can a birth/first mom give her birthchilds adoptive parents?
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What should I get my child's first parent for the holidays?
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We are feeling hurt and lied to by our daughter's birth family. What do we do?
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What names does your child use with his/her first family?
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Adoptive parents, would you want the first/birth mom of the child you adopted to tell her friends?
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