Question about adoptee's amended birth certificates?

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My Amom swore she never got an adoption decree. However the adoption must have gone thru since she and her husband were listed on my ABC. What is bad is that my biological father and I have the same woman as "mother" on our BC's (of course my bio dad is not on my ABC)

The most screwed up ABC I have ever seen tho goes to my best friend. She was also adopted by her bio father's mother. (she was 5 so she always knew she was adopted). Her ABC has her grandmother down as "mother" age of "mother" at birth was 56 and guess who is listeed as "father"...Her biological father!!!. So if you are doing her geneology, it looks like her grandmother got pregnant by her own son and had a baby at 56 years old. (I know this is Arkansas and all but geeze)

One morbid thought I had after looking at my ABC was that awoman could commit a murder, adopt a child that was born on the day she murdered someone and get away with it...after all, she has a legal document showing that she was in a hospital miles away giving birth that day......Show more

I'm still mulling this one over. I haven't thought much about it before, to be honest. My first reaction, is No. Not when the adoptee is still a minor. The records belong to the adoptee, with access by the legal parents (which would be the adoptive parents). I don't think it's any different than any other kind of privacy. I don't think that the natural family should automatically have access to the minor adoptee's medical records, school records, etc. I do think the threat of identity theft is valid, but that's not the most compelling reason. When the adoptee becomes an adult, then he/she can allow whomever he/she wants to have access to those records. If there is a question of coersion, however, I think the natural parents should have a legal route available, in order to access the records. Such as, being able to file a petition in a court of law. ETA: Mamakate, read up on identity theft. You'd be surprised what someone can do with a birth certificate....Show more

I have a copy of my son's amended birth certificate, and I am his natural mother.

The file date was stamped on the ABC, as being the same date as the date his OBC was filed. This was only 6 days after he was born. At that time, I had not surrendered him and was still fighting to keep him.

I did not surrender him until he was 2 weeks old. His adoptive parents got him when he was a little over a month old.

The "medical" information on the ABC was correct. It listed my ob/gyn, the hospital, date and time of birth, birth weight.

There was an additional section, which had been removed from the copy of the ABC which I have, but I remember that it was there when I signed the OBC. This section had additional medical details such as 'forceps delivery."

California law only allows the "mother, father, and the child" to have that additional medical information. So, my son's adoptive mother can get personal medical details about me on her copy of the ABC. I can't get those details, and they are actually a part of my medical record.

I was able to get the ABC after I found out my son's new adoptive name.

I cannot get the OBC.....which I signed, and which has the correct information on it.

As for the syph test...my mother was tested for that when I was born in the 40s and I think all mothers were. There is a record of that on my birth certificate, from NY.

Until the 1970s, couples had to be tested for syph when they applied for a marriage license also....Show more

The info on my ABC is my changed name, date, time, and place of birth, my adoptive parents names, ages, occupations, and current residence, the name of the doctor, and the date filed which was presumably the date the obc was filed since my ap's didn't even know me on the date listed. The most curious thing I found is that, according to my ABC, my amom was a housewife. She worked at a bank. She had a full time job with benefits. Her income was higher than my adad's. I'm not sure what was up with that.

Yes, they got an official adoption decree. It was standard issue, required by state law at the time they adopted. It was finalized in 1967 in Iowa....Show more

My friend was showing me his amended birth certificate-- I forget how it came up, the subject wasn't adoption, I think we were actually talking about DMV requirements-- and he's Canadian, so they get wallet-sized copies, and I got to see one.

Most of it was what you would expect. It listed the name his adoptive parents gave him, not the name from his first parents did (they had named him on his OBC,) and his adoptive parents as the mother and father who conceived him, which of course isn't true. All the other information was accurate as far as he knew.

The one thing that I found weird, though, was that it was date stamped two weeks after his birth. He was over a year old when he was placed as a foster child with the family who adopted him, and finalization usually takes 6-12 months. So apparently the certificate was dated with when it would have been filed if he'd been born to them, not the actual date it was filed following his adoption. I found that kind of surprising......Show more