Like Lisa, the child will experience genuine love from both parents, never having doubt-inducing questions such as: Do my birth parents love me? Or, why would my biological parents give me away? They grow up understanding their importance to both set of parents that are willing to cooperate with each other just to be able to spend time and be with them
This is emotionally encouraging for the adoptee who is able to receive guidance and support from both set of loving parents.
In addition, adoptees of open adoption also experiences fewer medical problems. In the research done by Kowal and Shiling, 75% of individuals were looking for their medical history, either for themselves or for their children (Adamec 2004). Unlike in open adoption, traditional adoption limits access to medical background and causes serious complications during check-ups or surgery. Lisa Owens, the adoptee mentioned earlier, has insight of diseases such as diabetes that run in her family line in which she had inherited and this knowledge could save her life one day. As Dr. Richard H. Carmona, a surgeon in the United States, mentioned, "Knowing your medical history can save your life. As millions of dollars in medical research, equipment and knowledge cannot give the information family medical history can." Everyone deserves this constitutional right that traditional adoption restricts, hence, all adoption should be made open.
Apart from that, open adoption provides the child with an identity, a small comprehension of their family ancestry. Wasn't it fascinating to hear about the war your great grandfather fought in? To know the contributions your family have made over the years to the country you now live in? Finding out about your family history is finding out about you, it is what defines you. Novelist Pearl Buck once said, "If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday." Fortunately, Lisa Owens never had to question her identity, who she looks like, where her flaming red hair came from or where she got her big blue eyes.
