Parenting & Family

Reader Stories: The Ways We Have Made an Open Adoption Work in Our Family

Share ideas, tips, or just offer support to other adoptive parents on how to include a child's birth siblings, birth parents and other members of a child's birth extended family as a part of an adopted child's life.

Open adoption is very much on a continuum, so if your child is not having visits with birth family, in what other ways are you maintaining this connection?

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How many children have you adopted and their ages?*

Share if they were adopted privately, internationally, or through foster care. Please share their ages as well.

How we've kept in contact with birth family*

Do you keep in contact through the Internet, visits, or in other ways? If no contact, how do you maintain a connection?

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Please offer any advice to other adoptive families interested in an open adoption.

How are the children handling the open adoption?*

Would you recommend an open adoption to others?

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