Open Adoption Gets Some Press

Open Adoption Gets Some Press

I think a lot of people have this stigma about adoption and many "widespread myths and misconceptions about open adoption"  This article reveals that only about 5% of adoptions are the old school "closed" adoption, where there is no contact and hidden records between birth family and adoptive family.  55% is totally open, and 40% are semi-open or facilitated adoptions where there are varying degrees of contact.  Its nice to start seeing articles about current adoption norms in society.  

Read the Huffington Post article here

Hopefully things like this will educate the public about adoption and lower its stigmas.   I am thinking of some family members in particular who brought a photo of an adoptive child and told me..

 "see, they turned out ok and they were adopted"   as if saying..  adoption is not normal and you can end up with damaged kids, but these kids were totally normal, so there is hope for you.