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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birthmom Archive
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Community Wisdom
Is it appropriate if my daughter’s first mother refers to her as HER daughter?
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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 ok to take a step back for awhile and try to define my life without my birthson in it?
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Any tips for a birthmom coming up on her placed son’s first birthday?
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Birth mom is not respecting our boundaries. Help!
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Community Wisdom
Is it appropriate to try to get more info from our daughter’s birthmom about birthdad?
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Community Wisdom
Would you recommend keeping this adoption open?
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Community Wisdom
Explaining differences in openness to my daughters?
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How do I talk to my son about differences in contact with different birth family members?
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How can we see more of our son’s birthmom without her parents?
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His birthday is tomorrow. What should I get his birthmom?
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Any advice for a birthmom trying to prepare for the first visit?
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What are some things you have done to enforce a healthy level of contact?
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Should I be more proactive about building birthfather contact?
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Community Wisdom
Writing a letter for the first time?
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Community Wisdom
We are feeling hurt and lied to by our daughter's birth family. What do we do?
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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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