Open Adoption Roundtable #28

The Open Adoption Roundtable is a series of occasional writing prompts about open adoption. It's designed to showcase of the diversity of thought and experience in the open adoption community. You don't need to be listed at Open Adoption Bloggers to participate or even be in a traditional open adoption. If you're thinking about openness in adoption, you have a place at the table.

This round is a smidge different--time for some cross-blog pollination! Lori of Write Mind Open Heart, an adoptive parent in two open adoptions, has up at her blog a set of eleven questions about open adoption which were posed to her by JoAnne, an adult adoptee in a closed adoption. There are some questions there about the role adoption professionals played arranging contact in your adoptions and how you understand the legal weight of any open adoption agreements you may have.

Here is how to participate in this roundtable:

Head over to Write Mind Open Heart to see the eleven questions.
Write up your answers and add your blog to the linky at WMOH by August 31
Come back here and add a link to your post in the comments of this post. I'll create a list here as well, so that the responses can be archived along with our other roundtable topics. (This step is not required, but extra exposure never hurts!)

The responses:

Racilous @ Adoption in the City
Monika @ Monika's Musings
Susiebook @ Endure for a Night
KatjaMichele @ Therapy is Expensive
Jenna @ The Chronicles of Munchkin Land
I am @ Statistically Impossible
Kelly @ From Empty Womb to Overflowing Heart
Thanksgivingmom @ I Should Really Be Working
Spyderkl @ Evil Mommy
Socialwrkr24/7 @ Eyes Opened Wider
anotherversionofmother @ Another Version of Mother
Amy @ Ramblings from Real Life
Meghann @ Everyday Miracles
Meg @ God Will Fill This Nest
Lori @ Write Mind Open Heart (and again)
Robyn @ Chittister Children
Cat @ Cat's Litterbox
Jewls @ Julie's Scribbles
Geochick @ An Engineer Becomes a Mom
Lynn @ Open Hearts Open Minds
Jenni @ Momma's Word Soup

22 comments:

Anonymous said...: Thanks for posting this. Here's my replies

http://racilous.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/questions-posed-by-a-closed-era-adoptee/; 7/19/11, 2:33 PM
Monika said...: My OAR response: http://musingmonika.blogspot.com/2011/07/oar-open-adoption-roundtable-28.html

:-); 7/19/11, 3:28 PM
Anonymous said...: I skipped a couple: http://susiebook.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/open-adoption-roundtable-28/; 7/19/11, 4:58 PM
KatjaMichelle said...: here's mine, updated to acknowledge that it's also an OAR http://therapyisexpensive.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/questions-about-open-adoption/; 7/19/11, 5:58 PM
Jenna said...: As I told you, I'm not happy about this line of questioning and the obvious anti-birth parent slant.

But here's my post: http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2011/07/20/open-adoption-roundtable-28-the-one-where-i-get-kinda-miffed/

Warning: I DO get kinda miffed!; 7/19/11, 6:17 PM
I am said...: Reply:

http://statisticallyimpossible.blogspot.com/2011/07/open-adoption-roundtable-discussion-28.html; 7/20/11, 11:51 AM
Kelly said...: Here's mine!

http://fromemptywombtooverflowingheart.blogspot.com/2011/07/open-adoption-round-table-28-questions.html; 7/20/11, 1:52 PM
Anonymous said...: Aaaaaand I'm back

http://ishouldreallybeworking.com/2011/07/20/open-adoption-roundtable-28-open-adoption-my-alternative-lifestyle/; 7/20/11, 2:53 PM
Anonymous said...: Mine's here: http://spyderkl.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/some-questions-from-an-adult-adoptee/; 7/20/11, 3:49 PM
Elly said...: I love that virtually (absolutely?) everyone gave the same answer to the question about the birth family 'just dropping by'.; 7/20/11, 8:59 PM
Anonymous said...: Mine is here:
http://anotherversionofmother.com/2011/07/20/open-adoption-roundtable-28/; 7/20/11, 9:23 PM
Amy S. said...: Here are my replies!!
http://www.amyrschumaker.com/2011/07/21/open-adoption-roundtable-oar-28-questions-posted-by-a-closed-adoption-era-adoptee/; 7/21/11, 12:24 PM
meghann said...: Here is mine! http://www.bflomama.com/2011/07/22/oar-28-•-questions-from-a-closed-era-adoptee/

xo; 7/22/11, 4:29 AM
Meg said...: Thanks for the great questions. Head over to http://godwillfillthisnest.wordpress.com to see my responses :)

~Meg; 7/22/11, 2:49 PM
Lori Lavender Luz said...: Here are mine :-)

http://writemindopenheart.com/2011/07/open-closed-adoption.html; 7/22/11, 3:32 PM
Anonymous said...: It seems that most people answered the same way. Here are my answers:
http://chittisterchildren.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/open-adoption-roundtable-28-questions/; 7/23/11, 12:58 AM
Cat's Litterbox said...: Here's the link to my answers!
http://catsfilibuster.blogspot.com/2011/07/open-adoption-roundtable-28.html; 7/25/11, 8:09 PM
Jewls said...: Finally answering a prompt! Hopefully I'll respond more often! :)

http://lanceandjulie.blogspot.com/2011/07/oa-round-table-prompt-openness.html; 7/26/11, 9:07 PM
Lori Lavender Luz said...: Annnnd...my response about the questions and the asker of the questions: http://bit.ly/mSqaqa; 7/27/11, 10:26 AM
Geochick said...: Here's my link:

http://geo-chick.blogspot.com/2011/07/open-adoption-roundtable-28.html; 7/28/11, 11:50 AM
Lynn said...: Here are answers to the ones I felt qualified to answer...

http://openheartsopenminds.blogspot.com/2011/08/answers-to-open-adoption-roundtable.html; 8/3/11, 10:56 AM
JenJo said...: Here are my answers to the questions. http://mommaswordsoup.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-adoption-roundtable-28.html; 8/5/11, 11:19 AM