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I hope you guys can help me out I am not looking for dialogue about what is better ֖ what is worse who fares better or how misguided X is for thinking one way or the other.
What I want is simple and to the point.
Define what Open Adoption is to you
Define what Semi-Open Adoption is to you
While I would, at some point, love to hear about the dynamics of your relationship ֖ I am simply looking for user defined definitions of the practice
So, please post what the two őtypes of openness are, for you and as you understand them.
Thanks!
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[FONT="Century Gothic"]Open: identifying information from both sides, address, phone, etc. Visits, phonecalls, pictures, email, direct no middle person.
Semi: pretty much one sided with information. No address of aparents, pictures and letters through 3rd party. Some times no last name of aparents.[/FONT]
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Open: full integration of lives in the sense of pics, updates phone calls and visits. No middle person/3rd party running interference. Exchange of direct identifying/contact information. Semi-open: partial integration where one of the above is missing (ex: pics and letters through agency, pics and letters with no visit, etc.)
Fully open: fully disclosed information of both parties with an understanding of communication and visits. These may be at designated times but not for the sake of limiting contact but for the sake of schedule friendliness. Contact between birth parent and child is encouraged and supported.Semi-open: half-disclosed information (for example: a-parents have the b-parents address only) with an understanding that there will be no communication other than at x-time in x-manner (so, with the intent of limiting contact) and absolutely no visits. Contact between birth parent and child is limited or expressly forbidden, most everything goes directly through the adoptive parent.
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Fully open: fully disclosed information of both parties with an understanding of communication and visits. These may be at designated times but not for the sake of limiting contact but for the sake of schedule friendliness. Contact between birth parent and child is encouraged and supported.
Semi-open: half-disclosed information (for example: a-parents have the b-parents address only) with an understanding that there will be no communication other than at x-time in x-manner (so, with the intent of limiting contact) and absolutely no visits. Contact between birth parent and child is limited or expressly forbidden, most everything goes directly through the adoptive parent.
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