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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adoptive parents Archive
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Community Wisdom
Any advice for hopeful adoptive parents at the hospital?
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Community Wisdom
A question for birth mothers, would you be offended if your non-birth parent significant other wasn’t allowed to be part of the open adoption?
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Community Wisdom
How do I challenge this openness?
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Community Wisdom
How do I move on from placing my son when I wanted to keep him?
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Community Wisdom
Do I just stay quiet and live with the hurt? Where do I go from here?
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Community Wisdom
Explaining differences in openness to my daughters?
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Community Wisdom
Can somebody tell me where I can find the studies that say open adoption is best for the child?
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Community Wisdom
How do I stay positive when my son’s parents are shutting down contact?
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Community Wisdom
Do I need to make gifts even?
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Research
Adoptive Parents: Your help needed
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Community Wisdom
Qualms with different types of openness?
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Community Wisdom
How do other birth moms pull it together and overcome the ache? How do I know if I'm helping myself or making it worse? How do I get past "wanting him back"?
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Community Wisdom
Can anyone of you tell me if the idea of involvement with extended first families made YOU 'uncomfortable'?
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Community Wisdom
Do you speak up when you disagree with other adoptive parents?
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Community Wisdom
How do you handle relationships with bio siblings?
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