Each child’s experience with semi open adoption will
vary. These variables include the degree
of openness, the ability to maintain communication, and the willingness of the adult
parties to honor their commitments, to name a few. Advantages that a semi-open adoption may
provide to an adopted child may include:
- Communication with birth families
- No birth parent/family search
- The child may know and understand some of the reasons for
his adoption.
- Greater sense of self/ identity
- The child can answer the fundamental question of “Who am I?”
- May prevent sense of abandonment
- Connection with Cultural heritage
- Available medical history
- Access to birth records
Labels: Adoption 101, adoption facts, Adoption Support, Babies, Birthparents, Cultural Identity, Domestic Adoption, Infertility, Parenting, Pre-adoption Education, Semi-Open Adoption
