If the adopted child and its biological parents are allowed to have some type of contact with each other them it is known as Open Adoption. Contact can be done in many ways like phone, e-mail, letters, or even personal visits . It by no means suggests that both sets of parents will ever come to face to face. Apparently, if that happens, it might be extremely uncomfortable for everyone. More often than not, the adoption agency or other organization will collect the communication from the adoptive parents and forward them to the biological parents. Before completing the open adoption, a schedule of types ans dates for contact is drawn up. This schedule and the relevant set of rules is crucial for the biological parents. If any of the scheduled contact is missed, it can have far reaching emotional impact in the form of stress. The buffer of the adoption agency as a go-getter, helps prevent emotional stress foron and all. Since the agency performs the hard task of nediation, the adoptive parents are savef the botheration of having direct interaction with the biological parents. It is essentail that all parties involved in an open adoption agree to the terms because such adoptions range from a simple name exchange before adoption to full contact by the biological family. You can very well imagine how soothing it would be for the adpotive parents to treat the child as their own when there no direct contact from the biological parents. These figures about open adoption statistics will give a fair idea about open closed adoptions as well.