The Difficulties of Open Adoptions

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🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Lindsay is aware that her son's birth mom is struggling emotionally since the adoption, and she wonders how much her son should be told. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast.
0:02.9	You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.4	Lindsay, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hi.
0:15.0	Hi.
0:15.7	How are you?
0:16.8	Thank you for taking my call, Dr. Laura.
0:20.0	How can I help?
0:22.4	Okay.
0:23.3	So we, my husband and I adopted our son 15 years ago.
0:30.9	He's now 15.
0:32.4	And we adopted him from our niece, who had gotten pregnant at 15 15 and she gave him up, you know,
0:41.2	up for adoption to us when she was 16.
0:46.0	Our son has grown up knowing that she is his birth mother, and they talk, see each other, maybe two or three times a year. And it's gone
1:00.5	pretty well. We feel like he's grown up in a very healthy environment in a very healthy way.
1:08.8	And so it's gone well, you know. Now, recently, she, I think that she's gone through
1:19.6	a lot of healing on her own. Sorry, I'm kind of nervous. It's all right. You're doing great.
1:28.1	Okay.
1:29.7	So recently, she went on a podcast.
1:35.3	And, you know, an hour-long podcast where she was interviewed.
1:39.8	And she shared her life experiences from the past 15 years.
1:45.0	One thing she went into was the experience of giving him away, the experience of,
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