When you adopt a child, one aspect you have to consider is whether you want the adoption to be open or closed. In the past, most adoptions were closed, meaning that the birth parents and adoptive parents had no information about each other at all. Now that adoption has come out of the shadows, the vast majority of private adoptions are open. In fact, The Kinship Center reports that 95% of adoptions in the United States are open to some degree.
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