Wow, I just read an interesting article on the availability of open records for adult adoptees. I was un-aware that in a few states, adult adoptees have a right to access their birth records.
For the person who was adopted…this gives a wonderful opportunity to explore their roots. It could also, open them up for a variety of experiences good ones and some not so good. But, when you don’t have all of the information about yourself and others do; it must be debilitating.
I can understand the need to know! I know myself well enough, that i would have driven myself batty with questions; especially, when i was a teenager. Or when i had my first child, graduated, got married…went to college…any of those milestones that would start a person to question where they came from. (more…)
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