“Open adoption” does not have a set, universally understood definition. It is best to think of openness in in an adoption as a spectrum – at one end of the spectrum, adoptions are completely closed or confidential, meaning the exchange of no information. Neither the adoptive parents nor birth parents know ANYTHING AT ALL about the other. […]
No, you don’t. At times, a birth mother will contact a national adoption agency or local adoption agency because the adoption agency has an eye-catching website, or a friend used that agency, or because the agency has told the birth mother not to work with an adoption attorney, probably because of competitive jealousy. Sometimes, a […]
For a lot of women, a positive pregnancy test, while, perhaps, surprising, is not unexpected. In other words, they wanted to get pregnant. On the other hand, for some women, a positive pregnancy test is unexpected and not the news they were hoping for. If you did not plan to get pregnant and are not […]