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Because people are saying all these things.
Oh, but open adoption.
Well, I'm in open adoption.
I still feel all these other shitty feelings.
So it's almost like underrepresented that open adoption cannot โ it's not always โ
The solution.
No, I get what you're saying.
Open adoption, though, I almost feel like it's subjective to whoever agency you're using, whatever.
It's so nuanced and so broad that you said that.
I remember when we talked to our adoption counselor and she mentioned that the only difference between open and closed is face-to-face contact.
Right, right.
Like I always say, we talk about it all the time, but getting older, I'm like, if the open adoption has this agreement, and I think it looks different for all agencies that do it.
So this agreement, though, is not legally enforceable.
Yeah.
In my opinion โ It's just a piece of paper in the middle of a bunch of legal documents.
So in my opinion, it's like โ so there's no other way to classify that agreement as coercion.
It's literally a way of just saying this is going to look way better than โ it's OK.
It's going to look like this, but it's not.
So if it's not legally enforceable, then what else is this piece of paper?
I can go on Microsoft Word right now and type up โ you know what I mean?