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Post-Adoption Contact Agreements: Tennessee
I like Tennessee. I like country music. While I haven’t been to Nashville (though I do plan on it in the next five years as a getaway with the Husband), I’ve traveled through various parts of the...
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Post-Adoption Contact Agreements: Texas
Texas. The Lone Star State. It’s pretty big. It’s got random weather and elevations. Their motto is “friendship” and the state’s name itself is derived from an Indian word meaning the same thing. But...
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Post-Adoption Contact Agreements: Vermont
Vermont. I’ve never been there. But I do know that they lead the country in production of maple syrup. And I like maple syrup, though, I prefer the all natural stuff that my Husband’s grandfather...
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Post-Adoption Contact Agreements: Washington
I think I’d like to visit Washington state. It just seems interesting. I mean, their gem is petrified wood. That’s just interesting! Then again, their state dance is the square dance. I can get that...
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Post-Adoption Contact Agreements: West Virginia
I grew up driving through the tip of the West Virginian panhandle on a regular basis. We’d leave Pennsylvania, enter West Virginia and leave it for Ohio in a ten minute time frame. Living so close to...
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Many Share His Pain
I know too many birth parents who have been promised on-going, open relationships with their relinquished children and their parents only to have the door slammed in their face at some point along the...
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Living in the Same City
A recent discussion on the forums has adoptive parents talking about how they would feel if the birth parents moved to their city. As a birth parent who doesn’t plan on moving until my Husband retires,...
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Reaching Out Again
Sometimes in open adoptions one side loses contact with the other. This can be due to many reasons: work, school, and family just to name a few. An arranged break is one thing and can actually help...
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Can You Close Your Adoption?
I’ve talked about the appropriate reasons and not-so-appropriate reasons that adoptive parents may choose to close a once-open adoption. And so the question remains: can you, as a birth parent, close...
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How ‘Open’ is Open Adoption
When you think of the term ‘open’ you think of the ability to freely go in and out…like a restaurant displaying their sign ‘open’. They don’t attach any stipulations to that term such as you can only...
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