Last week, I attended the American Adoption Congress's
annual conference in Cleveland. There I met many fabulous people and
learned more about adoption. The conference was full of adoptive
parents, adult adoptees, mothers (and the occasional father) who placed
their children for adoption and a bunch of social workers. We were
uniformly on board with the movement to open the "sealed" records of
adult adoptees, granting them the right to their original birth
certificates, which most of them do not have today.
The
frustrating thing about this movement is that few people outside what
we call the "adoption triad" (birth parents, adoptees, adoptive
parents) know much about the issue, so when state legislatures consider
open record bills, they don't hear from many people but insider
activists.
Here's a short briefing of the issue:
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