I will make this fast as I'm working and the babe is letting me work(he is not crying). A friend I have known for over 26 years is a college prof, this past summer she taught high school summer school, she befriend a student who is 18. This student just found out she is pg, and wants to give the baby up. She wants to do an open adoption, because she herself was adopted via a close adoption. She doesn't want to use CAS, and she can't find anything local. Where can she look. She is in Ontario, and she just wants a good home for the babe.
Another part of the question. This girl wants to find her birth family, she has a last name. Mel, my friend may know who her birth family is(she knows her birth mother is from a small town, and it happens Mel's whole family lives in that town and they know everyone,). The sad thing is the birth mother was 13 when she give birth and will be a grandmother at 31. So, what should Mel do?
S

I don't know the specifics in Canada, but the first thing I would do would be to find an adoptions attorney for a consult.

So would an adoptions attorney be like a family lawyer or do they just do adoption stuff?
S

Personally, I would seek out an attorney who specializes in adoption law, but there are some Family Law attorneys that would probably be willing to help.

I'm pretty sure that you have to work through an agency. I know in our province you do anyway. She could call any agency in her yellow pages and say that she's looking to place her baby and she will get the chance to work with them (all free) and look at potential family profiles where she makes all the choices and openness agreements, etc. http://www.children.gov.on.ca/CS/en/programs/Adoption/Publications/PractitionersList.htm

www.adoption.ca is a good starting resource for her too. It has a whole page on information on Ontario adoption records which are now open. She should be able to access information about her birthfamily reasonably easily.

Kerri