CE Eligible

In 2023 almost everyone knows the term “open adoption,” an exchange of information, potentially including direct contact and relationships between adopted people and their first/birth families. But openness in adoption does not “solve” all the challenges of being adopted. Rather, it presents both opportunities and challenges for the adoptee and requires both sets of parents to develop specific attitudes and skills as they navigate information about and relationships with one another. We will discuss how to walk this path, keeping the adoptee at the center, supporting them in deciding who their people are and what kind of closeness or distance they want or need.