Comments on: Open Adoption Series http://hoping.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/open-adoption-series Provides adoption information and guidance for people who are hoping to adopt a child domestically or internationally. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:42:47 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Faith Allen http://hoping.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/open-adoption-series/comment-page-1#comment-406 Faith Allen Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:06:13 +0000 http://hoping-to-ad.www.adoptionblogs.com/2007/03/01/open-adoption-series#comment-406 Your feelings were very normal for a typical pre-adoptive parent, just like mine were. Closed adoptions are what most people know about. The more educated we all are about the varying levels of openness, the better we can tailor our adoption plans to meet the needs of all members of the adoption triad.<br /> <br /> Thank you for sharing your experience.<br /> <br /> - Faith Your feelings were very normal for a typical pre-adoptive parent, just like mine were. Closed adoptions are what most people know about. The more educated we all are about the varying levels of openness, the better we can tailor our adoption plans to meet the needs of all members of the adoption triad.

Thank you for sharing your experience.

- Faith

]]> By: Chance http://hoping.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/open-adoption-series/comment-page-1#comment-405 Chance Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:37:33 +0000 http://hoping-to-ad.www.adoptionblogs.com/2007/03/01/open-adoption-series#comment-405 when we were going through our foster parent training to be approved as foster parents one of the activities that we did was that we had to get into 3 groups. One if you liked the idea of open, semi or closed adoption. Right off the bat I went to closed. If I was going to adopt I wanted that baby to be MINE and not have to worry about some "another mom" in the picture. Boy has my opinion changed now! Now I wish my semi-open adoption was more open, but our relationship is becomming stronger in the last few months. My next adoption I would love for it to be open (now since the child will come through Children's aid - like you said - might not be the best for the child. We'll see. when we were going through our foster parent training to be approved as foster parents one of the activities that we did was that we had to get into 3 groups. One if you liked the idea of open, semi or closed adoption. Right off the bat I went to closed. If I was going to adopt I wanted that baby to be MINE and not have to worry about some “another mom” in the picture. Boy has my opinion changed now! Now I wish my semi-open adoption was more open, but our relationship is becomming stronger in the last few months. My next adoption I would love for it to be open (now since the child will come through Children’s aid – like you said – might not be the best for the child. We’ll see.

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