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  • Community Wisdom

    How do I find siblings that were adopted?

    1 Comment
  • Community Wisdom

    Is it appropriate to try to get more info from our daughter’s birthmom about birthdad?

    5 Comments
  • Community Wisdom

    How does someone tell an adopted child that their birth name was different?

    11 Comments
  • Community Wisdom

    Do we send photos although she hasn’t requested them or not?

    11 Comments
  • Community Wisdom

    I am jealous of my son’s birth mom, how do I navigate this?

    11 Comments
  • Community Wisdom

    How best can we arrange for the possibility of an unanticipated adoption?

    8 Comments
  • Community Wisdom

    Do I need to make gifts even?

    4 Comments
  • Community Wisdom

    Any advice from Adopted parents on how I might forge relationship with my birthson’s adopted mother?

    5 Comments
  • Community Wisdom

    How much contact is best for a child adopted at ten?

    3 Comments
  • Community Wisdom

    How do I handle the confusion of an interfamily adoption?

    6 Comments
  • Community Wisdom

    How do I tell my son about his complicated family story?

    15 Comments
  • Community Wisdom

    Is having the extended first family at visits the norm?

    9 Comments
  • Community Wisdom

    Will I always feel the need to measure up to a higher standard because my child is adopted?

    10 Comments
  • Community Wisdom

    Writing a letter for the first time?

    10 Comments
  • 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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