With Halloween tomorrow, we thought this was the perfect time to tap into these fears by asking birth parents, adoptive parents and
waiting adoptive parents what scared them the most about open adoption.
What I have experienced in my own adoption and learned since Scott and I have
become waiting adoptive parents with the Independent Adoption Agency is that pain and sadness is inherent in adoption for all members of the adoption triad.
Prospective and
waiting adoptive parents If you are considering adopting a child, working with C.A.S.E. early in the process will help you identify and resolve initial questions and conflicts.
But in the end, with hundreds
of waiting adoptive parents to choose from, the kind of exposure they've generated for themselves is impressive and could ultimately make the difference in their efforts to get matched with expectant parents.
But if you're
a waiting adoptive parent in the process of writing a parent profile, here are three pointers from it that may be useful for you.
I confess, as
a waiting adoptive parent, I had been living in the future.
I read «God and Jetfire» last week, and as
a waiting adoptive parent it definitely gave me food for thought, just as a different perspective.
The best way to ensure a successful relationship is to keep the lines of communication open and to be as honest and upfront as possible with
the waiting adoptive parents.
Do: Set up a face - to - face meeting with
the waiting adoptive parents before making a final decision about them.
Or check out some of
our waiting adoptive parent profiles, here.
Click here to see our agency's
waiting adoptive parents - all families would be honored to be considered as potential parents for any birth child.
The one similarity
all waiting adoptive parents share is their dream of becoming parents and their hope to share their love with a child.
A wonderful expression of what
a waiting adoptive parent feels while they wait.