During most closed adoption situations what are the percentages of child finding there real parents?

There's no way to keep statistics on this kind of thing, and no one has attempted to, so it's impossible to give you any kind of percentage, but it's definitely possible.

I am going to base my answer on the UK as I am British. Closed adoptions still happen here and open adoptions amount to letter contact and maybe one visit a year. Anything more is a bonus.

Adoptees have the right to their birth certificate and adoption paperwork regardless of whether their adoption is closed or open. This does help them if they choose to search. Family members have the right to search for an adopted person once they turn 18. Any adoptive parent who doesn't tell their child they are adopted run the risk of being found out if a family member then finds the adopted adult.

My son's adoption was closed simply because I was refusing to agree to the adoption and I was being bullied and lied into surrendering and I wasn't told about open adoptions. I was told I would never be allowed to search which wasn't strictly true because there were things I could have done to make it easier for my son to find me. The law changed anyway so I could have searched but I didn't know that. My son started searching for me in 1999 and found my family quite quickly who thought it acceptable to lie to him for the next 5 years by denying knowing where I was. I found him in 2004 without actively searching as I joined a site he belonged to and the information I put in matched his. If I hadn't found him my family would have continued to lie.

Hi Karl-Henry - There are many answers to your questions. One is that yes, people who were adopted in a closed adoption years ago are able to locate their birth parents although it might take many years. Sometimes, due to death or other circumstances they are not able to locate them. How the birth parent or family feels and reacts to being found ranges from joy to unhappiness and it all depends on the individual situation. These days, most adoptive parents tell their children that they were adopted when they feel the child is old enough to understand - this can start as early as age 2. Adopted children usually feel and notice something different so wise adoptive parents are honest with their children because they know they will do more damage by lying than telling the truth. Adoptive parents who are insecure as parents might be more reluctant to tell their child of their origins. Some adopted children who find out they were adopted after they are teenagers or adults experience a great deal of anger about being misled while others are not effected by it. Every situation is different and special because each person and each family is different and special. There are websites which you can use to search for birth parents. There are so many different reasons that people are adopted so the reactions people have are different. If you are interested in looking for your birth parents, talk to your Mom and Dad about it and see if they will help you to find information. Very best of luck and God bless you too.

The main issue in closed adoptions is wether an adoptee knows some information about their bfamily or not. In most closed adoptions the adoptive family does not something about the bfamily. Having names, age or age ranges, geographic location is probably the most important information someone seeking can have.

If they know nothing than they can register with their states adoption registry which will exchange infromation btwn adoptive family and birth familes

It is possible.I had a closed adoption until I found her at age 29 1/2. I used a search angel and 2 weeks later I had found my bdaughter. She new she was adopted and wondered why I hadn't looked sooner. She has a great adoptive Mom.

You just don't know how anyone will react, but please don't give up. Expect nothing but hope for everything.

Quite honestly, if you are 18 years old and you question whether you are adopted, you can find out with DNA testing. The costs aren't that outrageous and you don't even need to tell your parents. Contact the DNA testing place and ask them what forensic evidence would be sufficient.

I have a friend who found out after the recent deaths of her parents that her late father was not her biological father. She has no idea if she is the result of sperm donation or an affair by her mother. Did her father know? No idea. So far, no relatives have acknowledged that they know the history. So, now she has an uncomfortable past.

ok. i'm by utilising no skill an authority, yet i think of i will wager lots of the justifications some APs are weary of an open adoption and that is particularly unhappy that they might think of this: they are mad that the beginning mom gets the main suitable of the two worlds - the beginning mom gets the relationship and love with out the accountability of elevating the newborn, feeding the newborn, outfits the newborn, etc. they are able to pass out on a Saturday night and not would desire to hit upon a babysitter, they are able to come out and in of the newborn's existence each and every time they want, etc. yet, like I mentioned, those are unhappy excuses. i think of all judgements must be with reference to the newborn's maximum suitable activity and making optimistic each and every of the newborn's desires, the two materially AND emotionally are lined and a relationship with their beginning mothers and dads helps to acheive that. We would sooner or later go with adoption to start our kin and if we do, we will unquestionably only want an open adoption. the newborn will sooner or later examine out how we acted and how we chosen to do each and every little thing in our newborn's maximum suitable activity which risk-free sharing them with their beginning mothers and dads and that newborn will understand that their APs particularly enjoyed them and needed to determine them for all the main suitable reasons. it is approximately doing what's maximum suitable for the newborn. If we undertake, i want our newborn to be enjoyed by utilising as a lot of human beings as conceivable and to appreciate they have been enjoyed by utilising the two their first and 2nd households. that's what it will be all approximately - approximately giving that newborn the main suitable existence conceivable.

Where there is a wil there is a way. My own search was fraught with difficulties and took many years to arrive in the right place. But I never gave up. Plus there is a chance the law will change regarding access to records which will help. Think longer term and you wil get there if you really want to. Good luck.

Even with closed adoption, most adoptive parents are sane enough to tell their kid/s that they're adopted - those who don't should be charged with wilful child abuse.

As to stat's on the issue, can't help yer there, soz.

I would say close to 85% of closed adoptions the child does find their biological parent. In all cases the adoptive parent does NOT know who the parents are.