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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pain Archive
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Community Wisdom
I lost my first grandchild to adoption and I can’t seem to let go. Any advice?
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Community Wisdom
Our child’s birth mother is making a worrisome medical choice, do I tell someone?
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Should I close the adoption with my birth family?
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Community Wisdom
Do we send photos although she hasn’t requested them or not?
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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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When explaining your child's adoption, has anyone said that it was 'meant to be'?
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Community Wisdom
What is all this pain for?
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