There are many children worldwide who are waiting to reach prospective parents and to be a part of their family through the process of adoption. Adoptive parents will also feel happy to take up a child through this process and to have a new member in their family. Some might  want to provide a new life to the desperate child or some may opt for this process to bring home a new member to their family. If you are getting started with the process of adopting a child, you need to avail the services of related agencies. These agencies will explain you about various options available and then you can make a choice. After gaining valuable information regarding the types of adoptions, you will able to select the one which suits you and your family at the best. In such process, let us now know more about open and closed types of adoptions.

After the child is being  adopted, he or she will have two sets of parents i.e. birth parents and adoptive parents. Even though adoptive parents are the only parents  for the adopted child, we can neglect the prominence of  birth parents. Hence adoption process leaves a dilemma for the child, adoptive parents as well as the birth parents to maintain the relationship or contact. The child will be living at their adoptive parents but in case of the older child adoptions, how can the adopted child neglect and forget about their birth parents. At some or the other time, he or she might want to have contact with them, even though they have love and affection towards their adoptive parents. in some cases, the adoptive parents will have contact with the birth parents of the adopted child and allow the child to have contact with them or allow to send or receive letters or gifts. This kind of adoptions are named as open type. In most of the cases of open type of adoptions, agencies will act as connecting link between them. Counter part of open type can be called as closed type, in which the adopted child  is not  allowed to have contact with their birth parents or not allowed to send or receive letters and gifts. It can also be termed as anonymous adoption.  Some adoptive parents will opt for closed type of adoptions  because of the reasons to avoid problem in future. Many of the adoptive parents who opt for closed type of adoption, will be in a worry that their adopted child will become closer to their birth parents and will neglect or may not get attached emotionally to them. Both of these types of adoptions have their own credits as well as negative aspects.

Open type of adoption allows the adopted child to get relive from the emotional stress which he or she feels because of leaving their birth parents and their environment. It is up to the decision of  the adoptive parents to continue relationship or contact with the birth parents of the adopted child.