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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openness Archive
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Community Wisdom
As adoptive parents, do you value the gifts/contact/etc of a first mom more than a first dad? Or any other first family?
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Community Wisdom
How do I challenge this openness?
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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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I am worried my sons aparents are not honoring our openness contract — what do I do?
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Qualms with different types of openness?
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How do I handle people's negativity about our daughter's open adoption?
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Openness and "primal wound"?
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