Open Adoption Support » friendship http://www.openadoptionsupport.com for families and individuals who support openness in adoption Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:52:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How much do adoptive parents tell their friends? http://www.openadoptionsupport.com/2010/01/how-much-do-adoptive-parents-tell-their-friends/ http://www.openadoptionsupport.com/2010/01/how-much-do-adoptive-parents-tell-their-friends/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:49:13 +0000 Anonymous http://openadoptionsupport.com/?p=886
  • Adoptive parents, would you want the first/birth mom of the child you adopted to tell her friends?
  • Can birth mother and adoptive mother be friends?
  • Can I give my baby to my friends?
    • ]]>     For a while a though has been knocking around in my head.
    I know many adoptive parents with open adoptions are respectful to first parents and everything.
    What I am currently wondering(and I am sorry that I have been so overly-curious lately) is how much to you tell your friends?
    For example say a friend makes a compliment on your adopted child(hair, eyes, height, etc) do you just say ‘thank you’ or do you say something like ‘yeah, he/she gets that from her first parents’ or something like that?

    If your friends ask you about your adoption experience do you go into detail about first parents at any time, or do you just stick to the facts of the experience from your own POV?

    If any of your friends make comments about first parents in any kind of way that could be percieved as negative, do you speak out against them or just ignore them?

    I am just wondering about adoptive parents in general and how they conciously or unconciously portray first parents(families?) to the people in their lives.

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  • Adoptive parents, would you want the first/birth mom of the child you adopted to tell her friends?
  • Can I give my baby to my friends?
  • How do I tell my daughter that our family friends are her birth family?
    • ]]>     Do you think it is possible for the birth mom and the adoptive mom to be friends; either stay friends if they knew each other before, or become friends if they did not?

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    2. Can I give my baby to my friends?
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