We just completed our profile for potential birth mothers, and our agency told us to start expecting calls. How do we handle those first conversations?
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.’
Setting Boundaries in Open Adoption
In an open adoption, your child’s birth parents become part of your extended family. Here are some common questions when it comes to managing those relationships.
What to Share in the Holiday Letter to Birth Family
It’s normal to think about your child’s birth family during the holidays. What should you share in a holiday letter?
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?
How Should New Parents Navigate the Hospital Experience?
Our open adoption expert explains how prospective adoptive parents can best navigate the emotional time spent at the hospital with the birth mother before bringing their new child home.
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?
Ask AF: Birth Sibling Contact
When kids find out they have birth siblings, they’re usually interested in meeting. Here’s how parents can help facilitate the relationship.
Ask AF: Sharing Difficult Birth Parent Information
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Opening Contact
“We recently learned that our son’s birth mother is having health problems. How do we tell him, and how can we ask for more contact?’
Ask AF: Birth Mother’s Day
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Two Moms, Two Roles
“Our daughter’s birth mother recently signed a card ‘from Mommy.’ It bothered me. Am I overreacting?”
Ask AF: Reluctant About Birth Parent Contact
How to create safe contact with birth parents who have a history of drug use.
Ask AF: Referring to the Birth Mother
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Step-Adoption and the Birth Family
Answers to your parenting questions.
Explaining Troubling Birth Parent News
Tough topics can range from discontinued contact to a slip back into drug habits to unexpected medical problems.
Ask AF: Different Levels of Contact
Our six-year-old son has contact with his birth family. our four-year-old daughter was abandoned at the hospital at birth. After a recent meeting with our son’s birth family, our daughter asked when she can meet her birth family. Should we stop taking her with us on these visits? Is it just confusing her?
New Questions About Open Adoption
As our child gets older, he keeps coming up with more and more questions about his adoption!
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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