How would you feel if you were separated from your birth mother? What if you could never speak to her again? For some they may be happy but for others they may be sad and later become depressed. Contrary to popular belief, adoption does not mean you can’t remain in contact with your biological parents. Open adoption allows families to work together to be in a child’s life. Open adoption is both the adoptive and biological parents to be in the child’s life and to share their information with each other. Open adoption is a good way for children to adjust to their surroundings without confusion. Over the years closed adoption has decreased and open adoption is becoming more popular. This is because this adoption method creates a way to lessen the separation anxiety that the birth parents and adoptee feel. The birth …show more content…
When? How often? Looking back, how, if at all, has openness affected your child? What was or is your relationship with the birth family like? How do you feel about the openness in the adoption? Parents responded to the last question in 3 different ways. Some said open adoption wasn’t an issue for them, others said that they enjoyed knowing the facts about the parents and the last group said that open adoption worked very well for them and their children. An adoptive parent in Siegel’s article stated, "There is certainly no doubt in my mind that open adoption is a good thing, a healthy, supportive, enriching thing. Any adopted kid is going to have a relationship with their birth parents, whether they know the birth parents or not. It'll either be real, or it will be imagined. And kids can imagine terrible things. Reality is safer because you can engage with it” (47). Open adoption helps with the unknown for a child; an open adoption a child never has to question where his or her roots came from. Open adoption also reduces the risk of confusion (Berry