If you have an open adoption, can the adoptees decide to close it?

Question

If you have an open adoption, can the adoptees decide to close it?

Answer 1

If you are a minor, no that is up to both sets of parents.  If you are an adult you can choose not have contact.  That is your right under the law.

Answer 2

It depend where you live. We have something called open adoption, but legally it doesn't exsist. How it's done is you and the adoptive parents make a verbal or written agreement and it acts as an open adoption but the adoptive perants hold all the rights and the agreement has no legal binding. Therefore since its all 'under the table' if the adoptive perants decide to cut the birth parents out after the adoption theres nothing the birthparents can do..... off course they don't clearify any of this until you've signed your rights and your child away...

As far as the adopted childs concerned weither or not it wants to see its birth parents is entirely up to it. If it's part of a closed adoption it ussually has to wait until it is of age to see birth parents.

Answer 3

You mean, can the child who was adopted (and who may no longer be a child) close an open adoption?

Depends on what you mean by 'closing'.

It is impossible to get back the anonymity one commonly associates with a closed adoption: everyone knows everyone.

As far as visits with the birthfamily, adult adoptees are, like other adults, under no obligation to have a relationship with anyone they don't want to, including both blood- and legal-relatives. Children adoptees are bound by whatever their adoptive parents want them to do: but most parents, especially if the children explain their reasons, will not make their children do something they really don't want to do.

For contact like pictures and updates, again, adult adoptees are under no obligation, and children adoptees have their adoptive parents make the decision. This time though, parents are unlikely to be as swayed by the children's not wanting them to have contact, since the children since giving information does not directly affect the child.

Answer 4

Yes, there is no legally binding open adoption.

Answer 5

yes

Answer 6

How old are you? It's like any relationship, you don't want  to see someone, don't see them.

Answer 7

I’m not sure about this however it seems logical that if a child is say between the ages of 13 to 17 and they don’t want to have contact with their birthfamily, but their parents  went for an open adoption. I think a person at that age is old enough to decide if they want to keep up contact with their birthkin. If they don’t I don’t think that it should be forced upon them.