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our semi-open adoption

By: Tracy Dee Whitt May 22, 2014

Uncategorizedadoptee, adoption, adoptive family, biological family, biological parents, birth family, birth mom, birth mother, closed adoption, foster care, open adoption, semi-open adoption2 Comments

There are all kinds of open adoptions. I know several families who’ve adopted and none of them have the same relationship with the birth families. Last week in the post, Birth Family Relationships, I talked about how different contact can look for each family. Connections with birth family can be done through the exchange of…

birth family relationships (adoption/foster)

By: Tracy Dee Whitt May 15, 2014May 16, 2014

Uncategorizedadoptees, adoption, adoptive family, biological family, birth family, birth family relationships, birth mom, foster care, open adoption, search for birth mom, semi-open adoptionLeave a Comment

My cousin, Dawn*, and I were teenagers when we sat on her living room floor flipping through a photo album. On the first page my Aunt Deidre* was pictured with a big smile, holding a precious baby with an adorable beauty mark on her forehead. That day, Dawn shared with me that her mom had…