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
I care about the children that my placed son first father has had with his wife. Is this unhealthy and weird?
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Community Wisdom
Do I say I know she is lying? Or do I decline to send her money and leave it at that?
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Community Wisdom
Would you recommend keeping this adoption open?
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Community Wisdom
Favorite children’s books about adoption?
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Community Wisdom
Do I need to make gifts even?
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Community Wisdom
How do I choose between two children?
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Community Wisdom
How do I tell my son about his complicated family story?
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Community Wisdom
When explaining your child's adoption, has anyone said that it was 'meant to be'?
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Community Wisdom
Birth mom doesn't want us to have contact with birth dad. Now what?
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