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Won’t an open adoption make me just a babysitter or at best a co-parent?

April 26, 2017adoption babysitter best co-parent

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Won’t an open adoption make me just a babysitter or at best a co-parent?

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Open adoption is still adoption, and that means you are the parent. The birthmother does not retain any parental rights. She cannot interfere with your parenting in any way. All decisions, including any decisions about visits with the birth family, are yours to make.