Tag archives for post-adoption relationships

Can I give gifts just to my son or do I need to include his parents other kids?

Is giving gifts to just my son, who was adopted by parents who also have a natural born child, enough?
Or should I give gifts to that child as well, even though they say I don’t have too. Technically they say I don’t have to give gifts to my son too, but do they really mean [...]

How can I ask my child’s parents to be more consistent?

The original agreement (6 years ago when R was born) was twice a year pictures and once a year visits. I was fine with that. Then as R got to be toddler age, we did visits on some sort of erratic schedule decided by R’s mother, sometimes monthly, sometimes every 3 months, but [...]

What do first parents want to hear?

Part of our OA agreement was that we would send our son’s first mom letters twice a year with updates and pictures.  When he was a baby this was much easier as he hit new milestones and grew there seemed to be so much to talk about.
But now that he is 7 everything sounds so [...]