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An Open Response to Anti-Open Adoption Sentiments, part 2

Posters on a forum for adoptive parents discussed their reasons for being against open adoption. In part 1 and here, I share my responses to

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Why I am Anti Anti-Open Adoption

(2011) I recall a thread on an adoptive parents forum called something like, “Why I am anti-Open Adoption.”* The conversation went on for four pages

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Do Over: “I’m a Bastard, Right, Mom?”

As you may recall from my last post, Tessa and I began a conversation about the meaning of the words bitch and bastard. We covered

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