th parents report a confidence in the rightness of their very difficult decisions when they have the security of knowing the adoptive parents and knowing how the child is doing.
Aside from clinical research, there are a host of emotional factors involved in the adoption practice for all stakeholders and open adoption seems to resolve many of these issues. For instance, many women who give up their children for adoption are adolescents, many as young as 14 or 15 (Weeks 1). For many, adoption seems to be the best solution due to being unable to support a child emotionally or economically, especially if finishing high school or going on to college is planned. However, closed adoptions create enormous psychological stress for many of these young girls. Lisa, a 15-year-old pregnant girl, found herself in this exact situation. Lisa is frightened to give her baby up to someone she does not know and of never seeing her child again. She is also worried that her child will suffer psychologically from not knowing its origins or past. As
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