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 ...

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 ...

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.

Birth mothers who created adoption plans for their children with Adoptions From the Heart say they were embraced by the agency and given comfort, support, and acceptance through the emotional process.