Open Adoption

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 up speed, and by the early 1990s open adoptions were offered by a majority of American adoption agencies.

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