Open Up A video about open adoption relationships.
Filmed in Kingston, Ontario with many of ARCS clients. A good
overview of extended family open adoption. For ordering information
please click here.
Books:
Dear Birthmother
by Kathleen Silber and Phylis Speedlin
Actual letters between adoptive and birthparents and birthparents
and their children.
Birthparent
Grief by Brenda Romanchik
Written by a birthmother, helps birthparents understand their
feelings of loss and grief.
A Birthparent's
Book of Memories by Brenda Romanchik
A fill in the blank journal for a birthparent to give the child
placed for adoption.
Pugnose
has Two Special Families by Karis Kruzel
A children's book about a little mouse who tells his open adoption
story.
The following books are classics on the
subject of open adoption:
Children
of Open Adoption by Patricia Dorner and Kathleen Silber
The Spirit
of Open Adoption by James Gritter
The Open Adoption Experience
by Patricia Dorner and Kathleen Silber
