Families are formed in all different ways. Personally my family was created using open adoption and it has been an amazing and unbelievable experience. I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on March 25, 1999 to my biological parents Melody Chase and Mike Wall. However these are not the parents that took me home. Vivian and Kevin Hurton took me home on that March day and raised me to become the person I am today. My parents have provided me with everything imaginable and open adoption made this all possible. By definition open adoption is, “a form of adoption in which the biological and adoptive families have access to varying degrees of each others personal information and have the option for contact”. To me however open adoption goes so much deeper than this definition. It gave me parents fulfillment of having a child, gave me a better life, and more people that I’m able to have relationships with. Open adoption has just made my life better in so many remarkable ways.
My birth parents were both around nineteen years old when I was born. They were young, in college, and in no way financially or mentally ready to have a child. I’m not trying to say that my birth parents aren’t great people, they are. I’m just saying that at the time I was born they just were …show more content…
I don’t think many people realize the true amazing power open adoption has on all parties involved. It gave my birth parents a second chance at life while still having a relationship with me. Open adoption has also given me the ability to not wonder about my beginning which is something more powerful then it seems. Not having to wonder where I came from or why I was put up for adoption allows me to go on everyday without a second thought. Having the understanding of open adoption and experiencing it first hand has allowed me to go through life more thankful, understanding, and successful than I ever could have been
My birth parents were both around nineteen years old when I was born. They were young, in college, and in no way financially or mentally ready to have a child. I’m not trying to say that my birth parents aren’t great people, they are. I’m just saying that at the time I was born they just were …show more content…
I don’t think many people realize the true amazing power open adoption has on all parties involved. It gave my birth parents a second chance at life while still having a relationship with me. Open adoption has also given me the ability to not wonder about my beginning which is something more powerful then it seems. Not having to wonder where I came from or why I was put up for adoption allows me to go on everyday without a second thought. Having the understanding of open adoption and experiencing it first hand has allowed me to go through life more thankful, understanding, and successful than I ever could have been