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.
Recent Comments
open adoption Archive
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Community Wisdom
How do other birth moms pull it together and overcome the ache? How do I know if I'm helping myself or making it worse? How do I get past "wanting him back"?
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Community Wisdom
Can anyone of you tell me if the idea of involvement with extended first families made YOU 'uncomfortable'?
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Community Wisdom
How do I tell my son about his complicated family story?
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Community Wisdom
How much should I continue to push for contact w/ bmom?
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Community Wisdom
Do you speak up when you disagree with other adoptive parents?
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Community Wisdom
Is having the extended first family at visits the norm?
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Community Wisdom
Will I always feel the need to measure up to a higher standard because my child is adopted?
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Community Wisdom
Do I show interest or give them some space?
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Community Wisdom
Should a first mom be more like a non-custodial parent?
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Community Wisdom
Birth mom doesn't want us to have contact with birth dad. Now what?
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Community Wisdom
How to I pull back from relationship with grandmother without hurting birth mom?
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Community Wisdom
Writing a letter for the first time?
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Community Wisdom
What is all this pain for?
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Community Wisdom
Open adoption with baby we didn't adopt?
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