Now there are open adoptions and the childen stay in contact with the family but it wasn't like that for me.

As a practical matter, some states seem to have more open adoptions than others.

His daughter is placed in open adoption, and Amy gets back together with Jake.

Provides definitions of terms and answers to questions pregnant women may have about open adoption.

But people in the field say the trend of open adoption is growing rapidly.

Today, in open adoption, it is the birth mother who chooses the adoptive parents for her child.

But we decided to go ahead and try to do an open adoption anyway.

Through open adoption, he agreed to pay the room and board of two pregnant women, assuming one might change her mind.

But then when you think about open adoption in the States, and all the costs of that, that's like buying a baby.

Even so, two years later not all of them were satisfied with open adoption.