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I know there are a LOT of birth mothers who place a child for adoption, then later parent the child(ren) they birth. When you're part of an open adoption, and you have a good, steady relationship with your child that you placed, s/he will, of course, be aware of you having other children and parenting them. How do you deal with the (sometimes unasked) question of why you are parenting a child when you chose to place "me"? I know that as children get older, they can better understand grown up circumstances and the precarious position unplanned pregnancy causes. But when they're little - how do you handle it? Do you coordinate with your child's adoptive parents to explain and reinforce love?