Value of Openness (National Adoption Month Article 4)
By Becky Laqua, Adoption Social Worker
What is Open Adoption? If you asked 10 people you would probably get 10 different answers. One person may think that a birthparent who chooses the adoptive family for her child has an open adoption. Another person may believe that an adoptive parent sending letters and pictures through Catholic Charities to the birthparents is an open adoption. Yet, another person may believe an open adoption involves visits with the birthparents. In the broad spectrum of open adoption all are true....click on the pdf to read the entire story.