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Adoption Relationships

The most important thing to remember is that there is no typical open adoption relationship. You may feel a close kinship or warm friendship with each other, or an uncomfortable and even conflictual association. The actual degree of closeness is not... [ more ]

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Questions to Ask Prospective Parents

You may have selected several different couples as possible adoptive parents for your child. How will you narrow your selection? Although some placing parents... [ more ]

Explore Open Adoption

Where Do I Start?
Defining Open Adoption, Introduction to Open Adoption

For Adopting Families
A Look at Open Adoption for Prospective Adopters, Fathers & Son, Who Decides for Me and My Child?

For Placing Families
Open Adoption, Questions to Ask Prospective Parents, Traditions: Welcoming New Babies

Contact Agreements
Contact Between the Families After Adoption, Cooperative Adoption, Cooperative Adoption Statutes, Glossary: Cooperative Adoption, Legal Treatment of Contact Agreements

International Adoptions
A Letter to My Adopted Daughter's Mother, Invisible But Real: Birthparents in International Adoption, Opening a Russian Adoption, Our Daughter's Russian Family

Family Relationships
Adoption Relationships, Between Adoptive Parents & Birthmothers, Letter from our Birth Grandmother, Relationships in Open Adoption, Relationships with Birth Grandparents

Open Adoption Ceremonies
A Transfer Ceremony, Adoption Covenant & Placement Ceremony, Moving On, Sharing a Wonderful Child

Pros & Cons
Hello Before Goodbye, How Media Portrayal Affects Open Adoption, Open, Closed, or Shifting?, Openness in Adoption: Pros & Cons, Painful Lessons, Perspectives on Open Adoption, Risks and Benefits of Open Adoption, The Case for Closed Adoption, The Open Adoption Experience, The Open Adoption Question

Myths
The Gift of a Child in Open Adoption, The Myth of Confusion, The Myth of Shared Parenthood, What is Open Adoption?

Ongoing Open Adoptions
Opening a Closed Adoption, Post-Placement: Ongoing Open Adoption, Opening a Closed Adoption, Post-Placement Workbook

Tools & Resources
Open Adoption Forums, Family Stories, Research


Open Adoption Forums

For Placing Parents (pre-adoption) & Birthparents (post-adoption)

For Adopting Parents (pre-adoption) and Adoptive Parents (post-adoption)

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Andrea - 1 week ago
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We have finalized two adult adoptions but do not know how to go about changing the birth certificates and changing the names #1
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