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My attitude about open adoption has morphed since we started the process.
Initially, I did not under any circumstance want an open adoption. I didn't want anything to do with a birthfamily. Where I live if you want a closed adoption you only have two options, international or older child adoption. Most/all private adoptions (which is where the majority of newborns placed for adoption come from) are at the very least semi-open (usually you meet, info is exchanged, letters/pic updates) to open (visits yada yada). So we were going to do international.
After talking to others in open adoptions, as well as meeting an entire triad that had an open adoption...our attitudes changed.
I do have to say tho, any reason we wanted an open adoption in the beginning was more about allowing the birthfamily access rather than any benefit it held for us.
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Leigh
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