Answers to your parenting questions.
Open Adoption and the Family Tree Assignment
Your child was just assigned the family tree in school. What now?
Not Open Adoption, Just Adoption
Practices once confined to open adoption are quickly becoming the norm. When will the language catch up?
Ask AF: Considering Open Adoption
Answers to your parenting questions.
“Open Adoption Works for Us”
From a rocky start, we've built a relationship with our children's birth families that has enriched their lives, and ours.
Questions About Being “Given Up”
Our seven-year-old daughter knows her adoption story, but, lately, she's been asking a lot of questions about why she was 'given up.'
What Should We Include In Our Contact Agreement?
We've been selected by a birth mom who is due in two months. Our attorney advised us to draw up a contact agreement prior to the birth. What should we include?
Visiting with Birth Parents
When we adopted our son three years ago, our relationship with his birth mother was semi-open (letters, phone calls). Since then it has grown more open, and we're discussing a visit. Any advice?
Birth Parent Relationship Changes in the Teen Years
"We have a semi-open relationship with our 14-year-old son's birth mother. Recently, he asked if we could invite her for a weekend. I trust his birth mom, but I'm worried."
Feeling Guilt Over the Birth Mom’s Grief
"Many parents feel guilty because their joy is the direct result of a difficult decision by the birth mother — someone you may have grown to care about. So when a new adoptive mother sees the birth mother in intense pain, she asks herself, 'Was adoption really the right thing to do?'"
Contact with Birth Parents
We just brought our newborn home and are wondering how to communicate with his birth mother. How do we start?
“Our Relationship with Our Child’s Birth Mother”
Getting to know our daughter's birth mother was a tremendous blessing.
Bringing Up Birth Siblings
Our daughter has birth siblings she doesn't know about, but we don't know how to tell her.
Explaining Different Levels of Birth Mother Contact to Kids
We know very little about our nine-year-old's birth mom, but her younger brother talks to his. How can we help her?
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