Open adoption isn’t easy to define. There are so many ways to look at it.
Ask two people what open adoption means to them and chances are they’ll give you two totally different but equally interesting answers.
Well, last month, during National Adoption Month, we put that question to nearly 20,000 people — adoptive parents, hopeful adoptive parents, adoptees and birthparents on our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages — to find out what they had to say about the matter, and they weren’t shy about sharing their opinions.
Here are some of the dozens of responses we received. This is in addition to the answers we got to our annual “30 Days 30 Questions” Q & A series. Continue reading