It is estimated that about 1 million children in the United States live with adoptive parents, and more and more open and semi-open adoptions are becoming the standard and typical type of adoption. Open and semi-open adoptions are adoptions in which the birth parents can access the child in a legally restricted way. Adoption used to be black and white, once the child was adopted it was no longer the birth parents’, the birth parents had no access, and birth parents relinquished all parental rights. But in today’s society, birth parents want to be more and more involved, but is it fair or beneficial to the child to have open and semi-open adoption be required? No. Adoptive parents should not be legally required to allow the biological parents access to the adopted child. How it can affect the child’s growth?”Adopted children may struggle with self-esteem and identity development issues more so than their non-adopted peers. Identity issues are of particular…show more content… “One downside of open adoption, Pertman says, is the potential for feelings of insecurity to crop up in adoptive parents (does she love her birth mother more than me?)” (Helland 1).Too much access can create issues within the relationship with the adoptive parents and the adoptive child and issues between the adopted child and the biological parent/s. This theory is proven by negative health effects and emotional effects children have developed. Too much access can cause the child’s growth to be hindered, can sever the relationship between adoptive parents and the child, and it can cause anxiety, trauma and other negative effects. Adoption, once finalized had relinquished all parental rights to the adoptive parents and while some access can be valuable and helpful it should not under any under circumstance be legally
