Open Adoption
Check out some of Pact’s most timely and popular publications. For permission to reprint or repost, please contact Beth Hall at beth@pactadopt.org.
Book Review: Adoption Unfiltered: Revelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies by Sara Easterly, Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard, and Lori Holden reviewed by Pact Staff If you’re seeking to move past the “fairy tale” and deepen your understanding...
by Beth Hall 2014 Mom… Hey, sweetie! Mom, I have something to tell you. For those of you who have adult children old enough to live away from home, you will no doubt recognize the fear these words put into the hearts of parents. Is anything wrong? No, no, at least I...
2014 Families often consult Pact about how to tell their communities when they have a new baby join their family through adoption. Adoptive parents James and Heidi sent the following letter to parents and teachers in their school community, and gave us permission to...
by Beth Hall 2014 At Pact, we get many calls from families asking about the possibility of connecting with their children’s birth parents. When adoptive parents consider opening their child’s adoption with one or more birth family members while that child is still a...
by Pact Staff When considering adoption, prospective parents are asked almost immediately to a make decision about whether they are seeking an open or closed adoption. Making parenting decisions before you become a parent can be challenging, particularly when they...
by Beth Hall 2018 Why adoptive parents need to talk about birth/first parents Birth parents are surely the least understood and most often villified members of the adoption triad.[1] Outsiders to the experience of adoption will often recommend that it is best to...
by Michele Rabkin 2016 As Mother’s Day approaches, you may be shopping for greeting cards. You can easily find a card for your mother, your grandmother, your mother-in-law, or for that special woman who has been “like a mother” to you. What you can’t find is one for...
Book Review: Open Adoption and Diverse Families: Complex Relationships in the Digital Age by Abbie E. Goldberg reviewed by Kerry Woodward 2020 Open Adoption and Diverse Families: Complex Relationships in the Digital Age, by Abbie E. Goldberg ((Oxford University Press,...
Book Review The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole by Lori Holden with Crystal Hass Reviewed by Katie Wynen 2013 Adoption creates a split between a person’s biology and biography. Openness in adoption is an effective way to heal that...
Book Review Making Room in Their Hearts: Keeping Family Ties Through Open Adoption by Micky Duxbury, MFT reviewed by Pact Staff 2007 How to negotiate the intricacies of open adoption—the emotional relationship between two families—is often a mystery to the people who...