Open adoption is an option for women (and their partners) facing an unplanned pregnancy. When considering adoption for your unborn child, you have many choices. And all the choices are yours to make!
Family Connections, Inc. is a New York State adoption agency that supports birth parents as they make a loving adoption plan for their unborn child. The Agency respects the decisions made by the birth mother and birth father (if involved). The Agency supports birth parents who make confidential (closed), semi-open, or open adoption plans.
Many birth parents and adoptive families are choosing open adoptions. Please know that all the adoptive families waiting to adopt with Family Connections are looking forward to an open adoption if that is what the birth parent wishes. Click here to view the Agency's waiting adoptive families.
Open Adoption is an adoption where the birth family and adoptive family have an on-going relationship. The birth parent choses the adoptive family, the two families share identifying information, and they develop a relationship with one another. The extent of the relationship is defined by the birth parent. A birth parent can ask to have on-going contact with the adoptive family prior to the child’s birth and after the adoption of the child. All of the choices for openness belong to the birth parent and are agreed upon by the birth parent and adoptive family.
Open adoption relationships are unique to each adoption and vary greatly. The level of openness with the adoptive family depends upon the choices of the birth family. Most open adoptions are characterized by:
a) the birth parent(s) meeting and choosing the family for their child
b) the sharing of identifying information between the birth and adoptive family
c) the development of a relationship between the birth family and adoptive parents prior to the child’s birth (if possible), and
d) the maintenance of a relationship between the birth parent, adoptive parents, and adopted child throughout the child’s childhood through ...
- Pictures of the child and letters regarding his/her growth and development shared by the adoptive family with the birth family consistently throughout the child's life until they reach adulthood. You can receive pictures/letters through the adoption agency, directly from the adoptive family, through a family blog, or in electronic communication.
- Face-to-face visits with the child and adoptive family. Typically families meet once or twice a year at a child-friendly place - playground, zoo, museum, etc.
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