What You Need to Know About
Open Adoption When You're
Thinking About Adopting
What is it and what is it not?
What do you need to understand about openness in adoption when you are first considering adopting? In this course, we talk with Lori Holden, author of The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption, blogger, and adoptive mom.
This course covers the following topics:
- When people first start thinking about adoption they may come in with some preconceived ideas about open adoption.
- Open adoption is basically co-parenting.
- Open adoption will make me feel less like the mom. I will feel like I’m competing for the role of mom.
- Open adoption is confusing to kids.
- Open adoption means I’m adopting the whole family even though all I really want to adopt is the baby.
- Open adoption is messy. Open adoption is complicated.
- Open adoption is not worth the trouble.
- How to maintain an attitude of openness.
- Is contact exclusively through the adoption agency or adoption attorney?
- Helping extended adoptive family members come to terms with openness.
- How to handle if your child says “you’re not my real mom”.
- Slightly annoying grandmother rule.
- Importance of birth siblings. How the existence of children that the birth parents are parenting affects adopted children.
- How to honor the spirit of openness without contact.
*This course includes a 1-hour conversational audio lesson, a 10-question quiz, and a certificate of completion with the successful completion of the quiz at 80%.
Your course will remain active for 180 days from purchase date.
This course aligns with the following regulatory requirements.
Virginia Compliance
22VAC40-131-210.A.18
22VAC40-131-210.A.19
*Important Information for agencies on Virginia core competencies.
Illinois Licensing Standard §401.520
*Important Information for agencies on Illinois Adoption Requirements.
Nebraska Licensing Requirement 005.16(D)
*Important Information for agencies on Nebraska Adoption Requirements.
