Not everyone has significant exposure to the world of adoption. I think many of us have those Lifetime movies in mind where kids were adopted or switched at birth and some sort of crazy drama results. The truth is that most adoptions these days are OPEN adoptions, meaning the child knows who their birth mother is and sometimes birth father as well. Knowing their birth parents and understanding the adoption process from the beginning helps kids to not have those "who am I" feelings.
In our adoption process, we're expecting that the birth mother will want an open adoption. For us, that will likely mean that we send photos and letters from time to time and they may even come for a visit annually. Please begin praying for whoever that birth mother is. Pray that she would be at peace with her eventual decision to put her child up for adoption and for choosing us as parents for her child. Pray also that when that day comes, we would have a good relationship with her.
There's all sorts of assumptions and myths about adoption. Check out this graphic...
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