Open adoption

Open adoption is a form of adoption in which the biological and adoptive parents to varying degrees, are access to personal information of each other.

Open adoption

In open adoptions, it sometimes happens already, often only after the child is born to an interview contact between the releasing and the receiving parent. Depending on how this first contact goes, sometimes lasting result from this encounter between the different parents and the child. For the biological parents of the contact with the child is an opportunity to make use of the further development of the child's own image. For the adoptive parents of the personal contact with the biological parents is a way to get a realistic picture of the personality of the donor parents and this weiterzuvermitteln the child if the contacts between the parents did not continue until the child their own opinions about can form its origin parents. What effects do the various forms of open adoption on children has not been investigated so far.

History

By the 20th century, most adoptions in the United States were open. Until the 1930s, most biological and adoptive parents in contact at least during the adoption process. Adoptions were closed when the company began to exert pressure to conserve the myth of the naturally formed family. One researcher called the families who have done everything to the child with the adoptive families match physically, "as if" - families. Open adoption was slow spread more because research from the 1970s indicated that it is better for the children. 1975, the trend has changed and until the early 1990s, open adoptions of most American adoption agencies were offered. Especially in the late 1980s and the early 1990s, the development has accelerated - made ​​possible by a research between 1987 and 1989 one-third of the agencies open adoption as an alternative. By 1993, offered 76 % of the surveyed agencies to open adoptions.

Semi-Open Adoption

In the semi- open adoption so-called contact between birth parents and child through letters and photos of the youth welfare office or the mediating agency can be maintained. Also, donating parents and adoptive parents can get to know. This usually happens at a neutral site, so in the adoption agency or the youth welfare office.