How to Use open adoption in a Sentence

open adoption

noun
  • The contract didn’t lay out any provisions of an open adoption.
    — oregonlive, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Yet open adoption is much less common when children are adopted from foster care.
    — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019
  • There is an open adoption agreement in place with Lalie’s birth parents for two visits per year.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
  • First, there are millions of parents with arms wide open, ready to receive a child and maintain an open adoption.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2022
  • But our once-very open adoption has dwindled over the years, mostly because her other mama has pulled away from us.
    — Leah Campbell, Glamour, 21 June 2019
  • To this day, the niece is happy with her decision and participates in the open adoption.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Her biological parents have an open adoption agreement to stay in contact with her.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2022
  • Her primary reason for choosing an open adoption was to be available to answer her daughter’s questions.
    — Nicole Chung, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Any interested family should be willing to maintain an open adoption with their birth mother.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2018
  • These days, open adoptions are more popular, allowing the birth parent or parents to continue to be involved in the child's life in some way.
    — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Legally freed for adoption, Makaila maintains regular contact with her birth parents through an open adoption agreement.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2019
  • There is the youngest generation, some of whom have open adoptions and have always known their birth parents, posting on adoptee TikTok.
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • More than a dozen states are currently considering legislation to open adoption records (to varying degrees).
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Two years into an eight-year sentence, Morgan hopes that reading from afar to her son, who was taken in by his uncle through an open adoption, will help her stay connected to him.
    — Erin Quinn-Kong, Woman's Day, 23 Aug. 2018
  • Organizations practicing open adoptions generally do not do home visits or phone landlords to make sure pets are allowed.
    — Arin Greenwood, chicagotribune.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The research clearly shows that open adoption is better, psychologically.
    — The Cut, The Cut, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Initially, Mike was leery of open adoption, but Kristie gradually convinced him that such arrangements were best for children.
    — Anndee Hochman, Philly.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • An open adoption allows the biological parents continued rights to visit or get information about the child.
    — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The family struggled to find a therapist who could understand the circumstances of their open adoption, which involved input from each of their girls' birth families.
    — oregonlive, 15 Nov. 2020
  • In many cases, birth mothers are the ones who decrease or cut off contact in an open adoption, whether because of financial precarity, health problems, or other challenges.
    — Nicole Chung, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Three days after her second son, Hayden, was born, Cabell finalized her decision to place him with new parents in what became an open adoption.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
  • There are numerous studies showing the benefit of open private infant adoption, but little attention has been given to open adoption after foster care.
    — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019
  • In one survey, highlighted in the Donaldson report, more than half of adoption-agency staff members said that they were contacted about a problem with an open adoption once or twice a year—a tiny fraction of their placements.
    — Nicole Chung, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Research has found that open adoption leads to fewer behavioral problems, better emotional adjustment, more positive identity formation, and higher self-esteem in adoptees.
    — Sara Gaynes Levy, PEOPLE.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Through a Google search, the two found The Cradle, and Hamrin started to learn more about adoption, especially the concept of an open adoption, where the child and adoptive parents have a relationship with the birth parents.
    — Kate Thayer, chicagotribune.com, 20 Nov. 2019
  • The appeal of international adoption during the peak years coincided with changes in American adoption laws that permitted open adoptions with birthparents having more rights to involvement in the lives of their children, Melson says.
    — Marice Richter, star-telegram, 27 Oct. 2017

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