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
My friend’s open adoption closed. Is there anything she can do?
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How do I bring up adoption as an option for someone experiencing a crisis pregnancy?
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A difficult childhood, do I tell my birth mom now that we’re in reunion?
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Should I close the adoption with my birth family?
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My son’s parents stopped sending letters. How do I find them and reopen the adoption?
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Any advice from Adopted parents on how I might forge relationship with my birthson’s adopted mother?
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Qualms with different types of openness?
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They haven't even told my daughter she's adopted. Now what?
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Will I get my real family in trouble now that I've found them?
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Why do so many think an open adoption is legally different than a closed?
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Community Wisdom
Do most open adoptions eventually close?
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