open adoption
noun
A form of adoption in which the biological parents participate in the process of placing the child with an adoptive family and may continue to have contact thereafter.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in Journal of Asian Studies.
- stereography
- stereoisomer
- stereoisomeric
- stereoisomerism
- stereolithographic
- stereolithography
- stereometry
- stereomicroscope
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- stereo separation
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- stereospondyl