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The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption
Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole
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2013
Summary
Prior to 1990, fewer than five percent of domestic infant adoptions were open. In 2012, ninety percent or more of adoption agencies are recommending open adoption. Yet these agencies do not often or adequately prepare either adopting parents or birth parents for the road ahead of them!The adult parties in open adoptions are left floundering.
There are many resources on why to do open adoption, but what about how? Open adoption isn't just something parents do when they exchange photos, send emails, share a visit. It's a lifestyle that may feel intrusive at times, be difficult or inconvenient at other times. Tensions can arise even in the best of circumstances. But knowing how to handle these situations and how to continue to make arrangements work for the child involved is paramount. This book offers readers the tools and the insight to do just that. It covers common open-adoption situations and how real families have navigated typical issues successfully. Like all useful parenting books, it provides parents with the tools to come to answers on their own, and answers questions that might not yet have come up.
Through their own stories and those of other families of open adoption, Lori and Crystal review the secrets to success, the pitfalls and challenges, the joys and triumphs. By putting the adopted child at the center, families can come to enjoy the benefits of open adoption and mitigate the challenges that may arise.
More than a how-to, this book shares a mindset, a heartset, that can be learned and internalized, so parents can choose to act out of love and honesty throughout their child’s growing up years, helping that child to grow up whole.
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Edition
1/2013
Copyright Year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-1738-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-1740-9
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
211
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
1 What Is Open Adoption? No access
2 What to Consider When Choosing an Agency or Adoption Professional No access
3 The Parents in an Open Adoption No access
4 Guideposts from Families Who Have Traveled the Path No access
5 Openness and the Adoptee No access
6 Heading toward Wholeness: Integrating Your Child’s Biology and Biography No access
7 Reality Check: When It’s Not Easy No access
8 Openness in Foster, International, and Donor Situations No access
9 Especially for Birth Parents (and Those Who Want to Connect with Them) No access
10 Fare Well No access
Appendix A: Insight on Adoption Profiles No access Pages 183 - 188
Appendix B: Opening Your Heart No access Pages 189 - 190
