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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boundaries Archive
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Community Wisdom
My son’s adoptive parents verbal agreement seems dishones to me. Now what?
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Community Wisdom
Can anyone help with boundaries in my reunion with my daughter?
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How do I help my children have an open adoption in a difficult kinship situation?
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Community Wisdom
How do I go into this with both eyes open, but in a way that’s fair to myself and to my son and to his first mom?
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Community Wisdom
How can a Inter-family adoption work to where everyone is happy with the outcome?
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Community Wisdom
How do I say no to my child’s birth mom when I feel so guilty?
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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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Community Wisdom
Is it o.k. to ask our child’s birth family use first names at this time?
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Community Wisdom
Birth mom is not respecting our boundaries. Help!
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