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More on NJ Legislation
Marley Grainers blog on the Daily Basterdette makes a lot of sense and she is right. If this legislation or any other legislation gets passed that contains a contact veto, changing it down the road is...
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NJ Advertising Dollars
An interesting article appeared in the opinion section in the Courier Post Online on December 7, 2006. The link to the article is listed above. Apparently, the legislation in NJ that would provide...
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CO Original Birth Certificates Part 1
Effective January 1, 2007 adult adoptees may get their original birth certificate in CO if certain criteria is met. It is my understanding that CO passed this law a year ago and was supposed to have a...
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Tennessee’s Journey to Open Records
The photo accompanying this post is the State Capitol of Tennessee, the state where I grew up. Tennessee is one of the few states where an adoptee can get their original birth certificate at age 21....
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Sperm Donor “Dad” Meets the Children
Mr. Harrison had been thinking about getting in touch since reading in an article in The New York Times 15 months ago that two teenagers whose mothers had used his sperm to conceive were looking for...
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Proposed Bill to Provide More Information for Adoptees
This bill has been proposed in Illinois to help provide more medical information for adoptees. But the bill touches on one of the sorest spots in the national adoption debate. At issue is how much...
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Newspaper fights to Open Records
A newspaper in Indiana is fighting to open adoption records in Indiana in a specific adoption case. A law is currently being considered in the state as well to make it a misdemeanor to accept anything...
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All Adoption Records Were Open in the U.S.
Advocates for closed adoption records tout the secrecy and closed nature of adoption and infer that is how it has always been. However, when legal adoption began in the United States, all records were...
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Birth Mother Privacy – A Myth or Reality?
Here we go again. This article discusses the open records issue as legislation is under way in North Carolina to change laws re acess. “This is a very tough thing to balance — the privacy of a birth...
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Questions to Ask Your Paid Adoption Searcher
Reuniting with your family members can be a difficult and arduous journey. For some, the search is simple, quick, and easy. For others, it is a process-a long process, at that. Whether hiring a private...
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It Is Not Only About Me
When I first decided to search for my birth mom, I was conflicted about telling my adoptive parents. I started the search, and then one day I got a phone call from a Joan I had called earlier. My...
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