I don’t know if anyone else has a similar situation…but, until we adopted our little girl 4 years ago…no one in my family or my husband’s family had ever adopted a baby. So it was new, unfamiliar territory for everyone. And when they found out we were entering into an OPEN adoption, everyone pretty much [...]
Open Adoption Support
for families and individuals who support openness in adoption
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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How do you keep negative comments about adoption from bothering you?
Yesterday a coworker of mine brought up adoption. She made a couple of statements about families she knows where the adoptive children have had behavioral problems and connected that to the fact they were adopted. I corrected the statement and made her aware that it had nothing to do with adoption. She then continued to [...]
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