An Adopted Child’s Advantages in a Semi-Open Adoption
Each child’s experience with semi-open adoption will vary. These variables include the degree of openness, the ability to maintain communication, and the willingness of the adult parties to honor their commitments, to name a few. Advantages that a semi-open adoption may provide to an adopted child may include:
- Communication with birth families
- No birth parent/family search
- The child may know and understand some of the reasons for his adoption.
- Greater sense of self/ identity
- The child can answer the fundamental question of “Who am I?”
- May prevent sense of abandonment
- Connection with Cultural heritage
- Available medical history
- Access to birth records