Meeting the needs of the adoption triangle through Open Adoption: The adoptive parent |
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| Authors: | Cathy Chapman O.P. M.A. Patricia Dorner M.A. Kathy Silber M.S.W. Terry S. Winterberg M.S.W. |
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| Affiliation: | (1) St. John Vianney Parish, 625 Nottingham Oaks Trail, Houston, Texas;(2) Adoption Awarness Center, Lutheran Social Services in Texas, USA;(3) Children's Home Society in California, USA;(4) Kentucky |
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| Abstract: | Open adoption enables the adoptive parents to participate more fully in the adoption. It allows them to make decisions regarding the amount of openness they wish to have. By means of seminars, readings, and panels the adoptive parents learn more about adoption and birthparents. By experiencing openness, the adoptive parents come to know the birthparents as real people. The birthparents are no longer perceived as a threat. The adoptive parents gain a feeling of entitlement to parent from the birthparent(s). |
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