| Now that you have made sure that you are | | | | his or her biological parents. Some families choose this |
| financially ready to adopt, that you have the right | | | | option to ensure that there are no further struggles |
| motives and information and are familiar with the | | | | with the adoption of the child. Their justification is |
| types of adoption, you are ready to know about the | | | | that it would be harder for both families to deal with |
| open and closed adoption. This is a very significant | | | | visits and information and gifts being sent. |
| choice in the adoption process. This has to do with | | | | There is however, a middle ground. Semi-open |
| the amount of contact, if any, the child will have with | | | | adoption allows the child to receive gifts and letters |
| his or her biological parents. | | | | from the biological parents but does not permit visits. |
| Full open adoption refers to when the child has the | | | | This is a common way that many families tend to go |
| option of having a personal relationship with his or her | | | | about the adoption process. It allows the child to feel |
| biological family. This specifically refers to the child | | | | as though they know where they are from and who |
| having direct contact with the birth parents. Whether | | | | they really are, without having to deal with the |
| you choose this option or not, you will be involved | | | | emotional stress, the financial strain of traveling to |
| with the child's birth family in some way. The | | | | visit the other family and the sense of confusion the |
| biological family of your child makes up much of who | | | | child may feel being part of a blended family, with |
| your child is. The option of open adoption allows you | | | | two sets of parents. |
| to further know the child that you have adopted, by | | | | You must keep in mind that what you decide is not |
| allowing you to know the child's birth family | | | | about you. You are not to make a decision that |
| personally. In this case, the adoptive parents and the | | | | would make the adults involved more comfortable. |
| birth parents need to see the contract that they | | | | The decision that you make should focus around the |
| agree upon as a covenant that they made for the | | | | needs and the wants of the child involved. You need |
| child's sake. This type of adoption gives a child a | | | | to know about the parents of the child, prior to |
| sense of wholeness and allows that two families to | | | | adopting to know whether allowing the child to have |
| become, in many ways, one blended family. It allows | | | | contact with the parent is in the child's best interest. |
| both families to get to know the child as a whole. | | | | Again, it is important that you talk with families that |
| The other side of things is the closed adoption. This | | | | have experienced both open ended and closed |
| form of adoption allows the child no contact at all | | | | adoptions to see what their opinion are, before |
| with his or her birth parents. The child may not know | | | | making a final decision. |
| the name or location or any other information about | | | | |