'You need a closed adoption.' My mom was adamant. Suddenly

'You need a closed adoption.' My mom was adamant. Suddenly, the ...

'You need a closed adoption.' My mom was adamant. Suddenly, the world turned upside down. She'd kept the secret for 35 years.': Adoptive mom ...

Conflicted, biological child reached out, but I don't want to be found

I had a closed adoption, I made it clear to the adoptive parents I wanted absolutely no contact what so ever, and I never held the baby I gave ...

Deck the Halls with Lots of Drama (breaking an OA agreement)

Adopted parents have the power to terminate an open adoption agreement, but they should think about how the child is going to feel about that as an adult. It's ...

Don't Feel Ashamed About A Closed Adoption

I lived and breathed adoption. And here's where it got me: feeling completely inadequate to raise my adopted children. I felt immense sadness ...

How to go about in finding my child who I gave up to adoption - Quora

I am the adopted child whose biological mother didn't want them to find. I followed all the processes to get my information & with help tracked ...

Should Adoptive Parents Be in the Delivery Room - Creating a Family

You might like to tell the agencies themselves that. One major problem I have with adoption agencies whose reason for existing is adoption is ...

Page 173 – Uplifting Stories of Kindness, Love ... - Love What Matters

... your mind. I guarantee you, I know I'm lucky.” 'You need a closed adoption.' My mom was adamant. Suddenly, the world turned upside down. She'd kept the ...

Giving Your Baby Up for Adoption at 17 - American Adoptions

I'm 17 and Pregnant — What Should I Do? It's normal to panic when you find out that you are unexpectedly pregnant at 17 years old. However, it's important to ...

Could you be secretly adopted? Read about the red flags...

Before this unexpected discovery, my adoptive parents never told me that I am adopted, and I never suspected it. For 40 years, my adoptive ...

Open vs. Closed Adoption, A Birth Mom's Advice - Focus on the Family

I love these words from my friend and adoptive mother, Heidi: “There will always be brokenness surrounding adoption, but we have the choice to ...

Open Adoption Can be Messy - Creating a Family

I can't express this enough – we LOVE her birth family, we are very pro-openness, we desperately want what's best for our daughter and we want ...

Parenting advice: My mom disappeared with my kid for hours. This is ...

We both grew up in a loving, stable family and stayed close, even though we lived far apart. ... But I do think you need to ask your pediatrician ...

Failure to Launch: How Adult Children Work the "Parent System"

“We didn't write this series on young adult kids in order to judge parents. Just because your child may not have launched successfully yet, that doesn't mean ...

The Moment I Became a Birth Mom | Adoption.com

I dedicate this series for all birth moms, whether their adoption ... Suddenly, the deepest part of my sorrow spilled forth. ... Do you want contact with your child ...

Justin found his mother on Facebook - What Was That Like

Do you know why? What were the circumstances that she decided to give you up for adoption? Justin. Well, that's interesting because– I've always ...

My mother didn't want to have me. I didn't want to relive her experience

They told their families, got married at the courthouse with the agreement that when the baby came, Penny would put it up for adoption and they' ...

Living with a Broken Heart: Are You Estranged from Your Child?

I want to talk when you're ready.” Another option that may feel less invasive for the adult child is to receive an “amends letter” from the parent—this is ...

I Could Have Gone To Prison For What I Did To Find My Birth Parents

Because we wanted you. People who couldn't keep you. Because my parents treated the details of my adoption as secret, I desperately wanted to ...

The myths of big families - Segullah

Now that we're about a month away from welcoming our sixth child into the family, I've been eating my words. And I finally feel like I need to ...

Telling your children about their adopted sibling

Truth is the only way to free yourself from secrecy's control. Many of us first mothers had little to no choice when we relinquished our ...