If you give a child up for adoption,do you have or can you get the right to see them or communicate?

Question

If you give a child up for adoption,do you have or can you get the right to see them or communicate?

Answer 1

You can but it is frowned upon. After all isn't this "open adoption" more or less foster care? If you choose to give the child up for adoption allow them to have a normal life and leave them be. I am not an open adoption fan.

Answer 2

You know everyone is entitled to 10 minutes free legal advice, you can just walk into a solicitors and they'll be able to advise you better than anyone on here, no offence to anyone, its just its a serious matter and you cant just take anyone's word for it.

Answer 3

In addition to open adoption, most states in the US now allow for birth mothers and their children to communicate once the child is 18.  Sometimes the individual adoption agencies will set up a file, and if you want to communicate with your child you will send them a letter that they keep.  If later your child communicates with them and says he wants to meet his parents, the agency will see that the parent is interested and put them in touch.

There are also some national registries that allow adopted adults to register with all the details they know about their birth and their parents, and birth parents can register.  The registry continually searches for matches.

There aren't any perfect solutions for communicating with a child you gave up.

Answer 4

Yes but you have to arrange it prior to the adoption, its called a "open adoption" and is quite common

Answer 5

Only if it is open adoption. then u can hammer out details and what not for visits and what ever... or u can wait till the child is legal age and then pursue a relationship with them...

Answer 6

Yes,  it is called open adoption as oppose to private adoption.  You can find these adoption agencies in your local area, just look it up in the phone book and call and ask

Answer 7

I sure hope not.

I was an orphan.

I got no child support.

so, they can get []///////>

Answer 8

in some states you can after their 18th birthday.

Answer 9

  It depends on the type of adoption.  In an open adoption yes.  A closed one no.

Answer 10

i think so, but i think that would be incredibly confusing for the child.

Answer 11

You need to do it before the baby is born or before you give the children up.

The birth parents/first parents can choose a couple to adopt their child who is open to an "open adoption" where at least the adoptive parents say they will keep in touch with pictures etc. of the child. Sometimes the bio-parents are invited to birthday parties or to come and visit during the year and exchange letters and possibly gifts.

Many times, the adoptive parents renege on this moral contract though. And many times after the first year they are under no official obligation to continue contact. Once the child becomes aware of coming from somewhere else, the adoptive mother often will feel insecure and cut of contact saying the child is "becoming confused and upset" by the contact when it is really the adoptive parents' issue. But then there's nothing you can do.

When you relinquish a child for adoption, you terminate your parental rights voluntarily. It is only through the grace of adoptive parents that you may be able to see the child again and it is completely their call how often and in what form. Many will allow one way communication -- sending you pictures etc. -- but don't want the child to have anything from you.

Answer 12

yes u do.. keep it has an open adoption and make sure it spicfied prior to the arrangment so there can be no confuusion

Answer 13

yes, it's called an 'open' adoption...