Author and birthmother Patricia Dischler writes from the heart regarding her experience of placing a child for adoption in 1985…She offers a beautiful and heartfelt perspective of 10 things that birth parents want adoptive families to know….. please click below to this beautifully written piece…
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Link to Kinship Center’s Frequently Asked Questions about placing your baby for adoption… Kinship Center offers free confidential adoption planning services and opportunity to plan an open adoption and choose the adoptive parents for your baby and enter into an open adoption..It’s your choice.
Are you looking for a family to adopt your baby who would honor an open adoption? Families approved by Kinship Center ,a fully licensed California Adoption Agency believe in open adoption and want to get to know the birth mother/birth father and birth family of the child and form a real relationship that is more than just an exchange of pictures and emails…they want to continue to build a real relationship that involves face to face contact through the years… click below to view waiting adoptive parent profiles.
I came across this heartwarming story of an adult adoptee who attempted to search for her birth family but the opportunity was lost out of fear…sadly her birth mother died without connecting with the daughter she placed for adoption 50 years ago…but in spite of the grief and what appeared to be a lost opportunity to connect another door was opened and the adoptee found a loving and open birth family who embraced her and filled in the missing pieces and connections…this story made me reflect on how brave birth mothers are who choose to be active participants in their children’s adoptions and although emotional and challenging for both adoptive families and birth families to keep the adoption open and to build ongoing relationships the child will be the beneficiary of all the adults hard work and wisdom…
click to link to the story
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/tonawanda/article685511.ece
Last Christmas I wrote some suggestions about gift giving for Birth Parents involved in an open adoption… hope you find them helpful
click to link to the article…Happy Holidays
http://www.pregnantwhatdoido.com/birth-parents-and-gift-giving-keeping-it-simple-and-from-the-heart/
Kinship Center is dedicated to helping woman explore adoption and choose the family for their baby and enter into an open adoption..click below to view adoptive parent profiles..choose a family with confidence knowing that Kinship Center families are pre approved, and are required to take adoption classes…


Maybe you didn’t know but November is National Adoption Awareness Month…. The role of being a birth parent can be hard, but it’s important to educate others as to who Birth parents are, as well as show the love they have for their children and the families they have helped to create through love ,sacrifice and commitment of placing a child for adoption…Birth parents have a lot to say so stand “tall and proud” and consider doing one thing to let others know what its like to be a birth parent the good as well as the challenges that are part of the adoption decision.. click the link below to see a list of 10 things you could consider doing during National Adoption Awareness Month…
One young woman bravely blogs about her choice in 2005 to place her daughter in an open adoption..the choice was difficult and she writes from the heart stating that open adoption isn’t always easy but it was the right decision for her…Click the link below to read this real adoption story…
https://www.adoptioncouncil.org/publications/adoption-advocate-no-41.html
Pregnant considering adoption and wondering what the adoption process would be like?? Read real adoption stories from birth parents who have been through the adoption process…





