From The Blog - Community Wisdom

Openness with families who are addicts?

So, are you all encouraging visits with small adopted children and their birth moms/dads? What if birth parents are addicts, not stable. Isnt this a lot for a child to have to deal with. Isnt it asking a lot of the adoptive parents to help their child shuffle their affections back and forth? It seems that when the courts determine birth parents loose their parental rights and the child is adopted, nobody should have to continously deal with all of this emotional baggage. I guess I am feeling a little vulnerable and angry right now, but, I really would like to know why people think this is the right thing to do? ...Click here to read more »