Anne (John) Coppola's Blog – May 2015 Archive (4)

Open adoption is a form of adoption in which the birth parents and adoptive parents have access to varying degrees of each other’s personal information, and have an option of contact in varying forms.  It can involve anything from yearly pictures and letters to emails, phone calls, regular visits, and so forth.



Open adoption is increasingly common today as a result of work done in the 1970s that suggested it was better for the adopted children. In 1975 open adoptions began to pick…

Closed adoption, also called a confidential, traditional, or secret adoption, refers to an adoption in which the records of the adoption are kept sealed, thus there is no relationship between the adoptive family and birth parents. Basically, the child’s birth parents are not involved in the child’s life at all, and they will not be informed or updated about the child’s situation. Furthermore, the child will have no way of knowing who his/her true parents are, and he/she will also have no…

Just watched the documentary “From Place to Place”, and it made me think about the issues in our foster care system. Here’s an article I wrote about it http://bit.ly/1Fhr3OH #fostercare #fostercareissues

I just watched the documentary “Adopted” and it is quite intriguing.



The documentary shows us two sides of the same coin. One family, the Trainers, is full of joy and optimism as they embark on their journey to adopt a child from China. On the other side of the coin, we get to see Jennifer Fero, an adult Korean adoptee, and her parents as they struggle to help Jennifer come to terms with her adoption. As you can see in the documentary above, adoption isn’t easy. It’s not easy on…