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
I am looking for advice on how to accomplish maintaining meaningful contact with our son’s addicted birth parents.
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How do I respectfully open a discussion about handling posting of pictures?
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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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Would it be fair for me to ask for our child’s birthmother to work on her relationship with the birthfather?
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Our child’s bio sibling had a baby. How do we figure this out?
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How do I create a relationship with my grandson’s adoptive parents?
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My son’s birth mom doesn’t always keep promises. How do I help him cope?
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How do I ask a woman I know professionally to adopt my unborn baby?
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A question for birth mothers, would you be offended if your non-birth parent significant other wasn’t allowed to be part of the open adoption?
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How do foster adopt parents engage with birth parents and keep their children safe?
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Birth mom is not respecting our boundaries. Help!
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Should I close the adoption with my birth family?
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Our daughter’s birth mom just died. Where do we go from here?
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I don’t feel ready for contact with the extended family. How do I handle this?
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Do I do enough to maintain contact with my son’s adoptive parents?
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How does someone tell an adopted child that their birth name was different?
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Would you recommend keeping this adoption open?
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