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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Am I the only one who thinks that open adoption is just a new way to pressure the birth parent into consenting to the adoption.
I am not sure if it helps her grieve her loss.
Sometimes it can be very hard for her if the adoptive parents divorce.
I am not convinced that open adoption is not marketed as co-parenting, which it is not
A little googling with find plenty of stories of heart broken birth moms[/quote]

Adoption is heartbreaking for a birth mom regarldess of open or closed. Open adoption doesn't make it any more or less heart breaking.

I think people hear about open adoption and get defensive because they fear the child will like the birth mother more than their adoptive mother and the birth mother may try and insist that a child be parented a certain way.
In the majority of people who I have spoke with that have an open adoption situations, neither of these have come to pass.  It seems like in the first one to two years there is more contact and then as time goes on it settles into a more routine and spread out pattern.  [/quote]

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