Adoption Reunion and the Adoptive FamilyHow Should the Adoptive Family Feel?
• Does an adoption reunion mean the end of a relationship with the adoptive family? • Should adoptive parents have any part in an adoption reunion? What difficult questions to answer. The answers depend heavily on the attitudes of all involved: the adoptee, the birth family, and the adoptive family. It also depends on the expectations held by each member of the triad. • What does the adoptee wish to gain from the reunion? • Is the adoptee simply seeking answers to questions regarding the adoptee’s ancestry? • What does the birth family want or hope for, a relationship? Some say that the adoptive family’s expectations don’t matter when it comes to birth parent reunions. I believe that it all rests on the adoptee and what he/she wishes to happen. • Does the adoptee want the adoptive parents to be involved? • Does the adoptee want his/her adoptive parents to meet the birth family or would the adoptee rather keep the relationships separate? The question remains – Does a birth parent reunio
