Why Open Adoption Works

Open adoption can work well for birth mothers and adopting parents for a number of reasons. Most important, the baby benefits by having more people love him or her. The baby will likely feel more connected to the world and not abandoned. In open adoption, the child’s fears and fantasies of who the birth parents are will be replaced with “real” people. Birth parents can have an enforecable agreement which will allow them contact and/or information from the adopting parents as to how the child is progressing through life. If the child has specific medical problems, open adoption allows the adopting parents easier access to the birth parents for more information with which to assess and treat. Open adoption can benefit everyone, adopting parents, birth parent, and child alike. Contact us for more information.

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About Megan Cohen, Adoption Attorney

(Attorney) is one of the only adoption attorneys in the country who is also a birth mother. Admitted to the bar in January 2010, Megan began working with Diane that same year and made partner by 2011. She took over the firm in 2013 and has since received Super Lawyers’ Northern California Rising Star award in 2013 and 2014. Megan graduated magna cum laude and first in her class from law school where she earned multiple awards for academic excellence. As a law student, she worked for three years as an advocate for victims of domestic violence. Prior to studying law, Megan was both a successful small business owner and a high school English teacher. Her passion for adoption began when she placed her son for adoption in 1988. She continues to have an open relationship with her adopted son and his parents, and has intimate knowledge of what it means to place a child, to choose the child’s parents, and to both stay connected and reunite with the adopting family.