Comments on: Access to Adoption Records: The Debate Continues http://www.courtreference.com/court-reference-blog/2007/12/17/access-to-adoption-records-the-debate-continues/ Court Records Access Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:46:39 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Gershom http://www.courtreference.com/court-reference-blog/2007/12/17/access-to-adoption-records-the-debate-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Gershom Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:20:09 +0000 http://www.courtreference.com/court-reference-blog/2007/12/17/access-to-adoption-records-the-debate-continues/#comment-3 I wanted to correct that Delaware and Tennessee do NOT give adoptees unconditional access to their original birth certificates. Adoptees in those two states are still being treated unequal. I wholeheartedly believe in equal access to our records. I will be at the Adoptee Rights Demonstration on July 22, 2008 in New Orleans. Everyone who supports open records for adoptees should be! Unite with us for OPEN RECORDS! I wanted to correct that Delaware and Tennessee do NOT give adoptees unconditional access to their original birth certificates. Adoptees in those two states are still being treated unequal.

I wholeheartedly believe in equal access to our records. I will be at the Adoptee Rights Demonstration on July 22, 2008 in New Orleans. Everyone who supports open records for adoptees should be! Unite with us for OPEN RECORDS!

]]> By: Teri http://www.courtreference.com/court-reference-blog/2007/12/17/access-to-adoption-records-the-debate-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Teri Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:22:18 +0000 http://www.courtreference.com/court-reference-blog/2007/12/17/access-to-adoption-records-the-debate-continues/#comment-2 I do not understand how Connecticut's American Civil Liberties Union can make a stand against open adoption records arbitrarily for birth mother's who haven't spoken up. Many of us believe we haven't the right to interfere in the life of a child we relinquished, but that by no means implies that we don't yearn to see our child again or want contact. As a reunited birthmother for about 22 years now I am grateful every day for knowing my daughter and I remember very well the 21 years of agony I went through without knowing her, especially on her birthday each year. Many of the birth mother's I've come in contact with are going through the same thing I did and would give anything to find their birth child, and are in fact looking for them. I think the American Liberties Union doesn't have a clue what the majority of birth mother's want. I do not understand how Connecticut’s American Civil Liberties Union can make a stand against open adoption records arbitrarily for birth mother’s who haven’t spoken up. Many of us believe we haven’t the right to interfere in the life of a child we relinquished, but that by no means implies that we don’t yearn to see our child again or want contact. As a reunited birthmother for about 22 years now I am grateful every day for knowing my daughter and I remember very well the 21 years of agony I went through without knowing her, especially on her birthday each year. Many of the birth mother’s I’ve come in contact with are going through the same thing I did and would give anything to find their birth child, and are in fact looking for them. I think the American Liberties Union doesn’t have a clue what the majority of birth mother’s want.

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