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I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great. -- Jennifer Gilmore
Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody. -- Caroline Leavitt
In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable. -- Dan Savage
I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else. -- Joan Didion
The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations. -- Jennifer Gilmore
I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story. -- Jennifer Gilmore
With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you check the boxes that you're comfortable with. Race is completely open in that regard. -- Jennifer Gilmore
I think open adoption is a great idea, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you." -- Kathleen Hanna
There are many ways to make the most of your time on the planet, and propagation of the species is just one of them. If you're convinced that it's the key to your happiness, there are routes open to you, whether with the help of modern medical science, marrying into a readymade one, or through fostering and adoption. -- Mariella Frostrup
For a small, open economy like Cyprus, Euro adoption provides protection from international financial turmoil. -- Jean-Claude Trichet

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