Broadened Horizons and Mediated Interactions: Openness and Contact in Transracial Adoptions.

The article focuses on the changes in adoption practices in recent times. Open adoption typically refers to the maintenance of contact between adoptive and biological families following the placement of children into adoptive homes. Contact can differ in terms of who initiates and is involved in the contact, including the adopted child, adoptive parents, biological parents, or other adoptive and biological relatives, and it can also differ in form. The practice of placing children in open adoptions is still relatively new in the U.S., though it has become standard in other countries.