Some fear that openness in adoption sets the stage for birth parents interfering in the adoptive families life, complicates the child's identity formation, interferes with the bonding between the child and the adoptive parents and impedes the development of the adopting parents parental role. (Austin, 1979; Derlieyn, 1979; Kraft, 1985b, 1985c; Zeilinger, 1979) (Siegel, page 410)
The decisions made by adoptive parents are always made in the best interest of their child.
The child or children who…
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