CHF 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Open Adoption, Closed Adoption
3 Nov 2016
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A permanent parent and child relationship is formed by the transfer of parental rights from one set of parents to another individual or couple who is willing to assume those rights and responsibilities over the child. Adoption is a relationship between three parties of the triad: Adoptive family: mother, father, grandparents and/or siblings. Birth family: mother, father, grandparents and/or siblings. Then: birth parents who released their children and adoptees discouraged from any future contact. Now: many birth parents and adoptees look for and reunited with each other. Most states have laws/legal procedures for facilitating process. Then: unhealthy or potentially unhealthy infants or children of color were not offered for adoption. Now: infants of all races, ethnic origins and disabilities considered adoptable. Then: birth parents often coerced into placing child due to financial and social factors. Now: most states have laws regarding what expenses can be paid.
