Weekend Wisdom: How Can We Do Open Adoption from Foster Care?
How can families navigate open adoption from foster care while maintaining the safety and boundaries their child needs?
In this Weekend Wisdom episode, we answer a listener’s question about staying connected with birth parents after adopting a young child from foster care. We discuss how openness can help children maintain connections to their history, identity, culture, and important relationships while recognizing the circumstances that led to foster care and termination of parental rights. We also explore how to set clear and respectful boundaries, choose the right level of contact, respond to a child’s changing needs as they grow, and create an openness plan that is flexible, sustainable, and centered on the child.
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Resources:
- Is Older Child Adoption the Right Path for Your Family?
- Birth Parent Experiences in Adoption
- Open Adoption
- When Birth Parents Struggle with Addiction, Mental Health, or Intellectual Disabilities
Music Credit: Michael Ashworth; Podcast Producer: Megown SoundWorks; Photo by Askar Abayev from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/elderly-woman-hugging-a-boy-5638468/