Should adult adoptees have rights to their birth certificates?
by Ron Huxley on November 8, 2009
November is National Adoption Month and I am going to try and highlight some of the concerns going on in the field of adoptions and post-adoption mental health (my specialty) to raise some more awareness on the topic. I am going to try and be fair and show both sides of the issues. Basically, I want to hear your thoughts and concerns. Tweet me a reply or post a comment below…
The article clip below asks the questions of why states don’t let adult adoptees have access to their birth certificates? What are your thoughts on it?
| Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy’s was always saying, “all children deserve a loving, permanent home”. I do agree but it always seemed to me that Dave did not care about the children beyond that. It is like he never gave thought to the children becoming adults and being curious about their origins or possibly needing to know birth family medical history. Now that Dave is deceased his Foundation seems to be continuing on just as he. I found Dave to be pathetic and the same goes for his Foundation. Please don’t take me as a person that does not think it important for children in foster care to be placed in homes. I strongly believe in it. But why can’t those with money like Dave’s Foundation be helpful with trying to get state laws changed so these children as adults will have access to their original birth certificate? |
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Adult adoptees absolutely should have a right to their identities.
I agree. It is a big legal issue and one that will continue to grow state by state. Thanks for sharing!
I was adopted at birth in Utah through LDS family services. It was a closed adoption (they all were at that time) and I have been unsuccessful in even getting non-identifying medical information. I feel like I should have the right to at least get that much information. But, at this point, I've not been able to.
Sara, thanks for your sharing your struggle. It is a common one unfortuantely by many adult adoptees. Keep searching!
I am from the Uk and am an adopted person and had a child adopted. Both were closed adoptions. In the UK you can access you original birth certificate. I have met up with both my birth mother and my relinquished child. I can't imagine what it must be like not to have access to such personal information about oneself.
Yes, this is a big issue all over…not being able to access information about your birth. It has so many ramifications for knowing ones own medical history, culture, etc. Thanks for sharing about your adoption experience.
I was adopted and do think that adoptees should have rights to their
original birth certificates
Thanks Heather for sharing. It is going to take the voice of many adoptees to get this changed in every state. Keep speaking up!
My Fiance was adopted, and he's 49 years old, and has no clue where he came from, his whole life an empty canvas of where he came from, his birth certificate has his ADOPTED parents' names on it, he has no clue where to start to locate his birth parents – and it's VERY hard for him emotionally. And it's killing me inside not being able to help him somehow so he can know, where he came from and have his questions answered that he has, I STRONGLY believe that Adoptees should have a CHOICE. Whatever happened to FREEDOM OF CHOICE??? Is this America? Not in my book….
I agree with you on the freedom of choice. It is an individual decision that each adoptee should make for themselves but if they choose to, they should have the right to do so.