Adoptees on Open Adoption: “I Have All My Pieces”

Teen and young adult adoptees who grew up in fully open adoptions discuss their relationships with their adoptive and birth families and the many benefits openness has brought them.

TAGS: Adoptee Voices, Birth Family, Birth Fathers, Birth Mothers, Birth Siblings, Open Adoption

May 30, 2016

Adoptee as a teen with her birth mother and siblings (left) and her adoptive parents (right).

Teen and young adult adoptees who grew up in fully open adoptions talk about their relationships with their birth parents and adoptive parents and the many benefits openness has brought them.

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