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Closed adoption supporters believe in three important factors when it comes to this issue. They believe that closed adoption increases abortion rates, ensure the anonymity of parents and protecting the child and adoptive families. Abortion rates are most commonly seen in young girls who are unable to raise the child. In addition, if open adoption was to occur because "they [the mother's] cannot be promised future confidentiality as to their identity" (Fair 1052). Giving up a child is an extremely touching, cold topic that most moms do not like to revisit. The idea of facing the child years from now after giving him or her up for adoption is a sensitive area. Rising abortion rates would increase the amount of children that are dying and the fewer children available for adoption. .
That leads into the discussion of ensuring that the parents who want their identity anonymous should have the right to keep it that way. In fact in Texas, "as a general rule, a court may not grant an adoption unless there is a pre-existing order terminating the parent-child relationship between the child and her living biological parents" (535). The state believes that birth parents have the right to determine whether the relationship should be opened or closed. In the adoption process, the parents exchange information with the adoption agency so at times the birth families and the adoptive parents never meet because the adoption agency hires someone to do that work. Lauren M. Fair, states that "social workers promise lifelong anonymity"(1051); similarly a parent walks into an adoption agency with those expectations that their privacy will be kept. Once the privacy is taken away, it directly affects the birth parents and the children. .
Supporters of open adoption strongly believe that open adoption caters to the best interest of the child. Also, they believe the best interest of the child is more important than the best interest of the parent.
