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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reunion Archive
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Community Wisdom
A difficult childhood, do I tell my birth mom now that we’re in reunion?
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Community Wisdom
Birth mom withholding info about my birth dad. Now what?
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Community Wisdom
My sister is searching for her birth parents — will I lose her?
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Open Adoption News
Off and Running Documentary
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Community Wisdom
How to approach our son’s first mother on beginning an open adoption?
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Community Wisdom
Will I get my real family in trouble now that I've found them?
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Community Wisdom
What will my first mom expect from me post-reunion?
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