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Leah Outten

Leah Outten resides in the Carolinas with her husband and 6 children. She still maintains an open adoption relationship with her birth daughter and the adoptive parents she chose when she was 16 years old. Using her experiences as a birth mother and a teen mom, she aims to be a source of encouragement and hope that healing and thriving are possible no matter the path chosen. She now works in the adoption and pro-life community through her writing, education, and mentoring. She loves to help adoptive families and birth parents navigate their own lifelong adoption story with the loving support she had during her experience.

Contributions by Leah Outten

The Perspective of an Adopted Child by Leah Otten

The Perspective of an Adopted Child

The informed perspective of an adopted child can add a better understanding of where they stand emotionally in…
Mother holding adopted baby.

What is Open Adoption

Open adoption involves, “contact between biological and adoptive parents and sometimes between biological parents and the adopted child.”…
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