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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Recent Posts
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Community Wisdom
Our child’s birth mother is making a worrisome medical choice, do I tell someone?
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Community Wisdom
Our potential baby’s birth mom wants to have a baby shower with our families and I don’t. What do I do?
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Community Wisdom
When to close an open-adoption?
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Community Wisdom
My adoptive son’s mom is angry with me because I’m expecting again. Now what?
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Community Wisdom
As lesbians, what are our chances of finding an open adoption situation?
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Community Wisdom
Our daughter’s birth parents recently separated and visits are now awkward. Any advice?
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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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Community Wisdom
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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Community Wisdom
Has anyone had to deal with a child using the internet to reach out to first family members?
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Community Wisdom
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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Community Wisdom
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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