I would never be a person willing to adopt someone in an open adoption situation. I wouldn't want to 'share' the baby with someone else who thinks they are anything more than the birth mother. I WOULD want the records available to the child when they turn 18 though....because then they need to know who brought them into the world and about their roots.
If I gave up a child for adoption...I would feel the same way. I would only want the child to have my information once they got to an age where they were mature enough to look me up. I would find it much harder to visit or look at pictures of a baby I, for whatever reason, had to give up for adoption.
One thing I will say though....adoptive parents always seem so wonderful and thankful. I think most adopted children are probably in great loving homes.
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