Open Adoption
Features
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 ]
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, 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)
- Open vs Semi-Open vs Traditional (pre-placement)
- Relationships with Adoptive Parents
- Birthparents in Open Adoptions
- Open Adoptions Closed by Adoptive Parents
For Adopting Parents (pre-adoption) and Adoptive Parents (post-adoption)
- Open Adoption (adopting)
- Open Adoption (adoptive)
