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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contact Archive
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Community Wisdom
My son’s adoptive mom says we can’t visit unless I bring along my reluctant parented son.
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Community Wisdom
Any ideas on a meaningful and supportive wedding gift for my child’s birth mother?
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Community Wisdom
Do I dare ask my daughter’s mom to reconsider our level of openness and risk not ever hearing from her again?
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Community Wisdom
How does your family deal with the different levels of openness with two or more adoptions?
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Community Wisdom
What legal action can I take to go live with my birthmother?
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Community Wisdom
I worry that she’s in denial and seeing the baby will hurt her more and us too. What do I do?
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Community Wisdom
What’s the harm in letting our open adoption visits lapse?
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Community Wisdom
I am looking for advice on how to accomplish maintaining meaningful contact with our son’s addicted birth parents.
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Community Wisdom
How do I respectfully open a discussion about handling posting of pictures?
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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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