Could you please explain in detail what closed adoption is.?

Question

Thank you.

Answer 1

It just means that there is no contact at all with the birthfamily, sometimes the people that adopt the child may know little to nothing about the birthfamily.  The little I know about my birthfamily  is in my adoption/foster  folder its not much but does happen to content Birthmothers name, some details of my birth and some other things.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The names of the birth parents and any other personal information is sealed.

Answer 4

Birth parents are not revealed.

Answer 5

There is a spectrum that runs from very closed to very open.  Closed adoptions came into vogue during the 1940s and continuing through the 1970s.  Closed adoptions and sealed records came about to protect the adoptive parents and the adoptee from the stigma of illegitimacy.  However, secrecy begets lies (and lies beget secrecy).

Adoptive parents were told little or nothing about the baby's parents.  In some cases they were lied to - about ethnicity, medical history, personal circumstances.  Birth mothers were lied to as well - told that their babies would go to wealthy families, assured that their child would go to a loving home.  That is the background - the "why" of closed adoption.

In a closed adoption the birthparents and the adoptive parents either never meet or have contact only long enough to finalize the adoption.  After that, the records are sealed and they supposedly go their separate ways.  The child may or may not be told they are adopted.  Recent changes in the laws of some states make it possible to receive "non-identifying information" on the adoptive family (for the birth parents) or on the birth parents (for the adult adoptee or the adoptive parents).

Many prospective adoptive parents favor closed adoption and will adopt from another country rather than have an open adoption in the US.  Many birthmothers favor open adoption.  If some form of open adoption had been available back in the 1940s-1960s what would the majority of birthmothers have chosen?  I don't know - it wasn't offered so they did not have the choice.

Answer 6

a closed adoption is when the birth mother or parents, choose to have no contact with the baby whatsoever.

Answer 7

Closed adoption means that personal identifying information and contact from both the adoptive family and the biological parents are not known to one another. The adoptees records are sealed in court by a judge and there is no access allowed to them by either side. If the adoptee wishes to search for their biological family members when they are of legal age in their state to do so they need to have an attorney to help them petition the court to allow the records to be opened so they can search for their family members.  The records will contain court documents from the adoption hearings, original birth certificate copy with the biological families information and hospital on it from where they were born and other identifying information.

Closed adoptions are done for a variety of reasons, the most common being a situation where the child was born as a result of violent crime or if one of the biological parents was incarcerated etc.. in order to protect the child and adoptive family (and vice versa) during their childhood.  

Even in closed adoptions it is best to tell the child in age appropriate ways about the details of their adoption and what you know of their biological family as they are old enough to understand different pieces of it.  Lifebooks help with this, especially for young children who will use it to connect themselves to a past they don't remember at times as well as to keep communication about adoption open.

On an edit note: Closed adoptions do still happen in the US. It's not just for international adoptions.  My child was adopted domestically (in the US) so I know this first hand. They just are not as common as they used to be in the US like they are for international/foreign adoptions which get most of the press and spotlight these days it seems.

Answer 8

Closed adoption is when after the paperwork is all signed - the adoptive parents and the biological parents have no contact with each other - what-so-ever.

Once the adoptee turns 18 - they are an adult - and they can choose if they wish to search out their bio parents - with or without help from their adoptive parents.

Personally - I've lived through a closed adoption - and my adoptive parents didn't even allow me to talk about my own adoption or my bio family.

Apart from being told I was adopted (from as early as I can remember) - I was told nothing.

It was a horrible thing to live through - for me.

Answer 9

There is to be no contact between birth parents and child, and also names will not be revealed to the child or parents.

Answer 10

closed adoption means the bio logical parents information is sealed and that you nor the child can ever have the papers opened. There will be no communication alloweed. If you are giving up a child for adoption  you will not be premitted to ever know anything about the child.

Answer 11

When the parents do not want updates about the baby.  They want the adoptive parents to live as if the baby is really theirs.  The birht parent would rather not see the baby or be sent pics...stuff like that.

Answer 12

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_adop...

For some reason my link is not working.  Go to Wikipedia.com and type in closed adoption. Don't forget to scroll down to the section called "Criticism of closed adoption".

(The items about higher rates of abuse of adopted children might be of interest to A-OK.)

Answer 13

closed adoption:

all records sealed

no contact between surrendering family and adoptive family and adoptee.

non identifying information is issued to some adoptees depending what state they're in and the information given varies from state to state, but none of it is identifying.

reunion depends on both paying the hundred dollar fee's and consenting to a registry of some kind for reunion, or hiring a confidential intermediary to go in between the two and establishing some sort of contact via third parties which is never good. Or using the internet and doing it yourself, the option I chose.

Just like in all adoptions, even in open record states of the USA upon finalization of the adoption the original birth certificate is sealed and the revealing of the adoption to the adoptee is left up to anyone really, hopefully not to the kids at school.