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Private adoption agencies increasingly are focusing on open adoptions as research supports its benefits. What does the journey look like in Delaware?

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This is why private adoption agencies are increasingly emphasizing open adoptions. Closed adoptions generally don’t allow contact until the child turns 18, but they are generally less common today.

While open adoptions are largely preferred and recognized as beneficial, technological innovations have also made secretive, closed adoptions more difficult and a relic of the past.