Precis

Open adoption has, over the years, become an increasingly more popular and
accepted option for children placed with adopted families. In certain localities it has
even become the option of choice. Concurrent with this emerging trend, open
adoption has become a hotly debated topic within the psychological, social welfare
and court systems in Israel. This paper attempts to present some of the commonly
perceived advantages and disadvantages of open adoption and to then formulate an
approach for evaluating the suitability of each case for open adoption. This paper
concludes that while open adoption is not a suitable solution in many Israeli cases, it
is nevertheless an option which must be considered and which under certain
circumstances may well be in the best interests of the child.