What is the difference between open adoption and domestic adoption?

Question

state of oregon

Answer 1

open adoption means that the child can see the birth parents and domestic means that it is within the country.

Answer 2

domestic adoption, means the child and prospective parents and birth parents are all from the same country.

Open adoption means that the birth parent(s) and adoptive parents have met and possibly continue to keep contact with each other after the adoption is finalized.

Answer 3

Pretty much the same thing in regards to WHERE the adoption has taken place. Domestic means the country you currently live in and adopted from the same country.  Open adoption is a type of domestic adoption. Open means you will have some type of contact with one or both of the birthparents. We have an open adoption with our child's birthmom. We see her, send pictures, and email. Each open adoption is different and is a relationship that keeps building between both parties. Open adoption is not legally binding. What i mean is, the adoptive parents do not HAVE to legally keep it open throughout the child's life. We are part of a big support group here, and the ones in our group DO continue their open adoptions. I "hear" on the news and internet of situations where adoptive parents do not do that, but I know from seeing it that the majority do honor the agreement. Each ones of us have different types of open adoption. Some do not share their last names but still email, meet and send pictures. Others go to each others houses and such. Each adoption situation is different and the child's viewpoint of it has to be taken in also. If the child decides they do not want any of the contact, then it must stop. It might be they just do not want to see them for a while, but the adoptive parents can still email and send pictures, or the child wants no contact. The adoptive parents have to do what is correct for their child at all times. Hopefully, our daughter will want to continue contact throughout her life, but it is her choice when she gets older about what she wants to do about that. And hopefully, our child's birthmom will continue to want contact. There have been times when she hasn't wanted any contact with our daughter, and we have left her alone to contact us. I hope this helps you and I didnt give more than you wanted.

Answer 4

open adoption is where the biological family is allowed to see the adopted child

my adoption was opened when I was six my biological father died I only know a few in my biological family

and domestic adoption I believe is where you adopt in your own country

hope I helped

Answer 5

A domestic adoption simply means one that happens within the same country...you live in the US & adopt a child from the US.  That domestic adoption can be fully open, fully closed or somewhere in between.

The level of openness is how much contact the birth mother has with the child and the adoptive family.  It can range from frequent visits and contact (open) to none at all (closed).  The birth mother typically gets to decide how open or closed the adoption will be...and the adoptive family gets to decide whether they're comfortable with that (if not, they wait for another birth mother to choose them as adoptive parents).

I've heard of families who have frequent contact with the birth mother & some who send yearly letters and photos & some others who have no contact whatsoever with the birth mom.

Answer 6

Domestic Adoption is when you adopt within your country.

Answer 7

Open Adoption means that the biological and adoptive parents have some sort of continued contact - whether thru letters or pictures or visits, etc.

Domestic Adoption is an adoption within the US.  

You can have an Open Domestic adoption which would be an adoption from within the US that allows the bio parents and adoptive parents stay in some form of contact.  This is what we have with our son's bio family.  

Open Adoption is the opposite of Closed Adoption (where the bio-parents have no contact with the adoptive parents once placement is made).  And Domestic Adoption is the opposite of International Adoption (where you would adopt a child from another country other than the US).

Hope that helps to explain things better.

Good luck to you.

Answer 8

Domestic adoption means the child and the adoptive parents live in the same country.

"Open" adoption is an empty term that is now being used to convince natural mothers that they won't really be losing their children forever. In fact, in almost no state is an open adoption agreement legally binding. If you search the Web you will be horrified at the number of stories told by first mothers who lost everything the minute the adoption was finalized. Some adoptive parents are honorable, but the odds are not in favor of the child and his/her first mother being allowed any actual contact.