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Word of the Week | Open Adoptions

Word of the Week | Open Adoptions

OPEN ADOPTIONS



British Columbia

[O]pen adoptions can be narrow or wide; where there is little contact between a birth parent and adopted child to regular contact between a birth parent and adopted child. The terms can be shaped by the circumstances of each situation.

(British Columbia Birth Registration No. 2009-44498, Re (2016), 2016 BCSC 170, 2016 CarswellBC 267 (B.C. S.C.) at para. 41 Masuhara J. (In Chambers))

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