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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birth mom Archive
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Community Wisdom
How do I respectfully open a discussion about handling posting of pictures?
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My son’s birth mom doesn’t always keep promises. How do I help him cope?
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A difficult childhood, do I tell my birth mom now that we’re in reunion?
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Is it insensitive to send a family photo to our child’s birth mom?
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How do I do an independent adoption?
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Should we have our child’s birth mom come to visit at our house?
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How do we stay positive and upbeat while we wait to adopt when we feel so discouraged?
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Community Wisdom
Is anyone else dealing with a birth family member with a mental disability?
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Community Wisdom
Do we send photos although she hasn’t requested them or not?
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How can we see more of our son’s birthmom without her parents?
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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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Birth mom doesn't want us to have contact with birth dad. Now what?
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How to I pull back from relationship with grandmother without hurting birth mom?
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Community Wisdom
Adoptive parents, would you want the first/birth mom of the child you adopted to tell her friends?
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How do I tell my daughter that our family friends are her birth family?
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