Open Adoption Vs. Closed Adoption (a compare/contrast essay)
...d from the stigma of pregnancy without the benefit of marriage, the child was protected from the stigma of illegitimacy, and the adoptive parents, often an infertile couple, were protected from the stigma of raising an "illegitimate" child. Social workers have majority control over adoptive placement decisions. Services are geared toward providing the most perfect baby for adoptive applicants, and both sets of parents would remain anonymous with records sealed, and little, if any, information was shared between them, and the birth parents. If a child wishes to seek their birth parents later in life the sealing of records there is also little or no legal way for the adoptee to access their birth information. Over the years psychiatrists, naturalists, and several organizations have been looking at the adoption process, how it affects the triad, and whether or not the original process was sound for the people involved, and in the 1970’s some anonymous sharing of information between adoptive and birth families began occurring, and the open adoption was formed. Birth parents are often involved in the selection of the adoptive family, some design the adoption plan and make decisions about the placement, and some birth parents plan the adoption with the adoptive parents they have selected. Although typically private agency adoptions include some communication between the families, most are still through the agency that maintains their anonymity. The role for these agencies is to pursue in creating adoption plans that will assure that the adoption meets the needs of the child, instead of protecting the reputations of the triad. Adoptive pare...