What is an open adoption?

Open adoption is a kind of adoption in which the biological and adoptive families have access to varying lengths of each other's personal information and have an option of contact. It's quite common in Hindu culture, where a childless couple adopts the second or later son of the husband's brother when the childless couple has limited hope of conceiving their own child. 

Studies suggest that children do better in open adoption because it allows them to better understand how they came to be adopted.