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
How do I handle Facebook relationships with her birth family for our 14-year old daughter?
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What do I do if I "bump into" my daughter's extended birth family?
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Birth mom doesn't want us to have contact with birth dad. Now what?
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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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Any advice on my daughter (15) meeting her birthmom for the first time?
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How do I heal a misunderstanding? Or should I let things go?
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How can we get our son's birthfather to accept the adoption?
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I get anxious when the first families contact us. Is this normal?
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We are having difficulties establishing boundaries with my daughter's fraternal birth grandparents.
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