Birth Parent Involvement

The Kawartha-Haliburton Children’s Aid Society encourages birth parents who relinquish a child for adoption to be involved in the planning process to the extent that they wish.

Practices in adoption tend towards openness to the extent that information exchange is non-identifying and protects the identities of both the birth and adoptive parents.

Birth parents relinquishing a child for adoption may participate in any of the following ways in the selection of an adoptive family:

• Through the expression of hopes and preferences for their child or particular qualities they would seek in an adoptive family.
• Through reviewing adoption profiles with the adoption worker and participating in the selection discussions.
• By meeting the prospective adoptive parents to exchange wishes for and feelings about the child.
• With the agreement of the birth parents and adoptive family, the Society may act as an intermediary for the annual exchange of non-identifying information such as letters.
• Through the provision of gifts, letters or mementoes for the child at the time of adoption placement.