Pennsylvania residents Caitlin Trone and Christian Mayer were both adopted, but Trone's adoption was open and Mayer's was not. Mayer's closed adoption created a lot of guilt and shame he had to ...

November is National Adoption Month and more than half of all adoptions in the U.S. are open adoptions, where the birth mom has a relationship with the adoptive family and sees her child grow up.

These days, 95% of adoptions are “open,” meaning birth parents, or the birth mother, have some degree of involvement with the adoptive family. Those arrangements vary widely, from occasional pictures ...

My husband and I adopted four children over the span of seven years. All of them are open adoptions. These arrangements allow for varying degrees of contact between adoptive and birth families. In our ...