Curiousity spawned from a string of openness bashing on a recent post at the birth/first parent blog:
For those with open adoptions, do you, as an adoptive parents, consider your lifelong commitment to your child to also include a lifelong commitment to said child’s first parents? Do you, as a birth parent, consider your lifelong commitment to your child to also include a lifelong commitment to said child’s adoptive parents?
I’m realizing the comparsion of open adoption to marriage is a stretch that some are completely unwilling or unable to make. However, it was used to exemplify the fact that open adoption relationships are/should be more than a casual relationship held with the lady in the cubicle next to you at work. (I’m stopping myself here because I feel an expanded post coming for the birth/first parent blog.)
So, answer the question as best you can. I may swipe some of your comments for the expanded post. (For reference, D got so riled up by the thread itself that she commented and she’s a rare commenter!)
(Breif update: A very controversial post (honestly, wait until you read the title, I am hilarious!) on the ANALOGY will be up on the birth/first parent blog on Friday morning (early). It contains the list of similarities that Heather graciously threw up this evening, for which I am eternally thankful. Also, if you commented, you might be quoted. Check it. I will, haha!, be on vacation (camping) so you need to hit it up to defend your side (pros/cons). I’ll address hate mail when we come home the following Friday and by “address” I do mean “delete.”)
