Adoption Records

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Adoption Records

An unfamiliar knocking on the door of a house containing a happy family, a woman opens the door and her jaw drops in terror. Her biological daughter that she gave up for adoption has somehow made contact with her. Inadvertently, she is making the woman relive her sexual assault. The woman never thought she would see the face of her rapist again because she got her records sealed. The birthmother moved on with her life like she was supposed to. But maybe her new family is even unaware that this stranger at their house is related to them. Court is changing the policy of adoption records. There are many factors that build the debate on whether birthparents deserve the right to seal their privacy and remain private or if an adopted individual's right to know ones heritage trumps the birthparents privacy.

A normal citizen has the right to know his or her parents, heritage, and bloodlines.

It is hard to see how someone can just take that right because we are born with it. The right to one's adoption records should be unconditional with no government restrictions, or loop holes in which one must have a court case to obtain his or her own documents.

An organization that is leading the fight for these rights is bastard nation, here is there mission statement. "Bastard Nation advocates for the civil and human rights of adult citizens who were adopted as children. Millions of North Americans are prohibited by law from accessing personal records that pertain to their historical, genetic and legal identities. Such records are held by their governments in secret and without accountability, due solely to the fact that they were adopted. Bastard Nation campaigns for the restoration of their right to access their records. The right...