Her parents took her and her friends swimming at a pool and then brought them back home for a party, complete with hot dogs, games and presents. Caryn is an adopted child. LSSI is a pioneer agency in this form of adoption. We're a child welfare agency.
People have to have a sense of openness about life in general.
Caryn's adoption was among the first truly open adoptions the Chicago-area agency made. Before, LSSI had encouraged birth parents and adoptive parents to share only non-identifying information. Since 1990 about 25 open adoptions have been made each year. A glimpse at Caryn's life shows how the arrangement works. Barbara and Roger Blomquist, members of Good Shepherd Lutheran C hurch in Naperville, Ill., where they live, came to LSSI because they wanted another child.