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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letters Archive
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Community Wisdom
My family is lying about the child I placed, is there anything I can do?
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Community Wisdom
How far do you go for contact with a birth family and what is acceptable for visits?
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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’s a unique present I could send my daughter?
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Community Wisdom
Our daughter’s mom is in prison and doesn’t want us to know. How do we handle it?
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Community Wisdom
My son’s parents stopped sending letters. How do I find them and reopen the adoption?
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Community Wisdom
How does someone tell an adopted child that their birth name was different?
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Community Wisdom
Explaining differences in openness to my daughters?
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