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 Archive
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Community Wisdom
Any tips for a birthmom coming up on her placed son’s first birthday?
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Community Wisdom
How appropriate is it for us to get involved with our child’s mom making another adoption plan?
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I worry about striking the right balance between inviting and pushing; I’d love to hear about other families’ experiences in opening adoptions further.
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Has anyone had to deal with a child using the internet to reach out to first family members?
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Birth mom is not respecting our boundaries. Help!
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Community Wisdom
How do I get the grandparents to let the kids see each other?
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Community Wisdom
Should we introduce our two children’s birthparents to each other?
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Community Wisdom
How do I maintain a relationship with my child’s siblings when the other parent is abusive?
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How do I find siblings that were adopted?
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Community Wisdom
We are feeling bullied by our daughter’s paternal birth family. What do we do?
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Statistics about adoptions that close?
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How do I make a decision about sharing our profile with a different agency?
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Community Wisdom
How do I challenge this openness?
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Community Wisdom
Should I close the adoption with my birth family?
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Community Wisdom
Is it appropriate to try to get more info from our daughter’s birthmom about birthdad?
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Community Wisdom
How do we stay positive and upbeat while we wait to adopt when we feel so discouraged?
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Our daughter’s birth mom just died. Where do we go from here?
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