Usually means: Birth and adoptive families communicate.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. open adoption: Merriam-Webster
  2. open adoption: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. open adoption: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. open adoption: Wiktionary
  5. open adoption: Dictionary.com
  6. Open adoption: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. open adoption: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reactive Attachment Disorder (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (open adoption)

noun:  An adoption in which the biological mother/biological parents and the adoptive family know each other's identities, and choose to remain in contact after the adoption process is finalized.

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