Adoption Controversy

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face of a child is worth much more than a few tears, so therefore, open adoption should be used more often.

“Open adoption, allows birth parents to meet the adopting parents and maintain contact with the adopting family to put their minds at ease, enables the birth parents to see that the child is alive and well, and thus facilitates the grieving process. The child has access to information about his or her genealogy, ethnic heritage, and medical background that is crucial to emotional and physical well-being. Furthermore, the adoptive parents are empowered in their parental role and feel more entitled to be the child's parents because they are better able to answer their child's questions about the adoption, deal with facts rather than fantasies, and have the birth parent's explicit permission to parent the child” states Deborah H. Siegel. This professional gives so many reasons to allow open adoptions, bringing into focus the fact that these children and parents who engage in ...

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