Is open adoption practiced in Asian countries?
Are you asking if people adopting in the US from Asian countries can have an open adoption? That’s difficult. Most people don’t get any information regarding the birth family, and if they do, it’s inaccurate or woefully incomplete. We were very, very lucky that we were able to contact and keep in touch with our son’s mom. Or are you asking if adoptions within Asian countries themselves are open? I don’t know about the whole continent, but in the country my son is from, there is a strong prejudice against parenting a child that is not of your blood. That means very little adoption outside the extended family, so when adoptions do occur within the country, they’re usually open. eta: Children who don’t have extended family to adopt them have a bleak lookout. Of my son’s three siblings, one has died, one was sold by his mother to a farmer. I’ve been sending her financial support so she could keep her kids. Her new husband did not want to raise another man’s son so she sold the five year ol
