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	<title>From Hope to Reality &#187; Open Adoption</title>
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		<title>Open Adoption story in USA Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 19:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, USA Today (online) ran an emotionally-stirring piece about a single mother of three teenagers who became pregnant and chose adoption for the child: &#8220;Struggling families look at adoption.&#8221; Openness in adoption is a major theme in the article. The interplay between the financial crisis and an uptick in domestic adoptions (and abortions) is also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Openness in Adoption online education course, tomorrow</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow, Feb. 5, at 9 pm (EST), Carolina Hope is offering a live online adoption education course about openness in adoption. Here&#8217;s the write-up from the course page: We often hear that families who are considering a domestic adoption are afraid of an &#8220;open&#8221; adoption. In this 1-and-a-half-hour course, you will learn what an open [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open to openness in adoption</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Open to openness means that the adoptive parents should be willing to meet with the birth mother before the baby is born, be with her at the hospital, and provide her with pictures and letters after the child is placed with them.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The father-daughter relationship is very important&#8221;: Part 4 of Sarah&#8217;s open adoption story</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This interview is part of a short series of interviews and testimonies about adoption. (Last week we blogged Margaret&#8217;s Mothers&#8217; Day Testimony of placing a child for adoption.) A few months ago Carolina Hope&#8217;s director (Laura Godwin) interviewed Sarah, a young woman who placed her infant daughter for adoption during her senior year of college. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Everybody&#8217;s nervous&#8221;: Parts 1 &amp; 2 of Sarah&#8217;s open adoption story</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this interview, Sarah talks about openness in adoption from the birthmother's perspective. She relates her first meeting with the prospective adoptive parents, as well as what qualities in the couple were important to her.]]></description>
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