Living with Openness – Adoptive Families https://www.adoptivefamilies.com The resource and community for adoption parenting. Fri, 21 Feb 2020 17:44:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Ask AF: Letting a Preteen Take the Lead in a Birth Parent Relationship https://www.adoptivefamilies.com/openness/preteen-independent-relationship-with-birth-mother/ Fri, 21 Feb 2020 17:44:09 +0000 https://www.adoptivefamilies.com/?p=40920 “A New Path in Our Adoption Journey” https://www.adoptivefamilies.com/openness/new-path-adoption-journey-reconnecting-with-childrens-birth-mother-after-addiction/ Tue, 23 Apr 2019 08:25:43 +0000 https://www.adoptivefamilies.com/?p=40200 Parents Share: Birth Sibling Connections https://www.adoptivefamilies.com/openness/connections-with-birth-siblings-in-other-adoptive-families/ Wed, 28 Nov 2018 21:30:07 +0000 https://www.adoptivefamilies.com/?p=39709 [EXCERPT] Those Three Words https://www.adoptivefamilies.com/openness/those-three-words-excerpt-birth-mothers-story-second-pregnancy-becoming-mother/ Mon, 29 Oct 2018 16:34:02 +0000 https://www.adoptivefamilies.com/?p=39635 Parents Share: “Our Open Adoption Over the Years” https://www.adoptivefamilies.com/openness/parents-share-our-open-adoption-over-the-years-more-or-less-birth-parent-contact/ Tue, 28 Aug 2018 13:36:06 +0000 https://www.adoptivefamilies.com/?p=39241 “Motherhood, Cleaved.” https://www.adoptivefamilies.com/adoption-bonding-home/motherhood-cleaved-accepting-different-feeling-love-birth-child-adopted-honoring-birth-mother/ Tue, 24 Jul 2018 16:47:27 +0000 https://www.adoptivefamilies.com/?p=39096 Ask AF: When and How to Tell Our Child She Has Birth Siblings? https://www.adoptivefamilies.com/talking-about-adoption/when-how-to-tell-child-she-has-birth-siblings/ Tue, 24 Jul 2018 16:38:09 +0000 https://www.adoptivefamilies.com/?p=39137 “Meeting Jennifer” – Opening a Foster Adoption https://www.adoptivefamilies.com/openness/meeting-birth-mother-opening-foster-adoption/ Thu, 24 May 2018 16:36:58 +0000 https://www.adoptivefamilies.com/?p=38872 Ask AF: What to Consider Before a Kinship Adoption Placement https://www.adoptivefamilies.com/openness/kinship-adoption-what-to-consider-before-adopting-baby-relative-family-member/ Wed, 21 Feb 2018 22:32:20 +0000 https://www.adoptivefamilies.com/?p=38249 Ask AF: Will Our Son See His Birth Mother with Her New Baby and Wonder, Why Not Him? https://www.adoptivefamilies.com/talking-about-adoption/our-childs-birth-mother-parenting-new-baby-will-he-wonder-why-not-me/ Wed, 24 Jan 2018 18:44:20 +0000 https://www.adoptivefamilies.com/?p=38110