Do You Condone Sealed Birth and Adoption Records for Adoptees?
If so, in what other areas of life do you defend discrimination against a select group of society?
2008-09-15T10:08:15Z
ETA: interesting RB - Isn't what you suggest still discrimination? whilst other people enjoy freedom of association in the 'Land of Liberty' selected Adopted people are opressed and denied the rights others are granted, under some presumption of harm KWIM
2008-09-15T12:19:39Z
Great point Sly. Our mothers deserve better :(
2008-09-15T12:41:49Z
ETA RB see Shelly & Amy's answers. Get it now?
monkeykitty832008-09-15T12:41:14Z
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No, I don't support sealed records.
I actually don't think birth certificates should be amended at all, honestly. A birth certificate is a record of birth, and it doesn't make sense to me to alter that after the fact. I think children should have a birth certificate and a separate certificate of adoption.
If either party (parent or child) is truly a danger to the other, a no-contact order or restraining order is possible. I don't think those rare circumstances justify restricting access for everybody.
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Its a sensible way to start. The site allows you to do a no cost scan simply to find out if any sort of data is in existence. A smaller analysis is done without cost. To get a detailed report its a modest payment.
You may not realize how many good reasons there are to try and find out more about the people around you. After all, whether you're talking about new friends, employees, doctors, caretakers for elderly family members, or even significant others, you, as a citizen, have a right to know whether the people you surround yourself with are who they say they are. This goes double in any situation that involves your children, which not only includes teachers and babysitters, but also scout masters, little league coaches and others. Bottom line, if you want to find out more about someone, you should perform a background check.
I absolutely do not support or condone the legalized fraud perpetrated by the state called an Amended Birth Certificate. It is a theft of the mother's medical history by granting it to strangers.
I further do not support the sealed records being sealed to mothers, either. It is unconscionable that a document signed at the moment of peak stress be enforceable forever. Murderers get a parole hearing, but a woman guilty of giving life outside the strictly defined parameters proscribed by society are given a life sentence. More times than not, the ap's have information about the mother, and are allowed to get more as time goes by. I say that the mothers are entitled to equal access. Women who surrendered their infants to adoption have nothing to back up their memories except the stretch marks on their bodies and the medical scars that make a lie of the ABC.
No I do not condone sealed records. A mother or a father can deny contact all they want. They do not have the right to deny access to the OBC. It belongs to the person whose birth it records. Do the non adopted have to deal with this issue? Are the mothers and fathers of the non adopted denied access to those records? No they are not. So shouldn't the laws be the same instead being separate? Being separate is not equal. Don't believe me? Read Brown vs. Board of Education. The right to privacy is the right to be free from governmental interference as shown in Roe vs. Wade, Griswold vs. Connecticut, and the Eisenstandt cases. There is no right to total anonymonity
I absolutely DO NOT condone sealing birth and adoption records. As an adopted person, I passionately believe in open records. What I don't believe in is open adoption. Children do not need to know their biological relatives until they are adults and then only if they want to meet them. I am a victim of open adoption and it SUCKS!!!