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In the following viewpoint, Denise K. Castellucci argues that adoption records should be opened because only the adopted individual has the right to investigate or bypass the facts of his or her origins.
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www.enotes.com/adoption-article/adoption-records-should...
www.enotes.com/adoption-article/adoption-records-should-opened
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Adoption Research: Adoption Records Should Remain Sealed | Opposing Viewpoints Research Topic. Adoption summary with 186 pages of encyclopedia entries, research information, and more. ... In the following viewpoint, Ira Carnahan contends that adoption records should remain sealed if the birth parent requests it.
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www.bookrags.com/researchtopics/adoption/sub23.html
www.bookrags.com/researchtopics/adoption/sub23.html
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Records remain sealed in open adoption agreements, unless the adoption occurred in a state that allows the adoptive parent the option of keeping the records unsealed. Should the adoptive parents choose to terminate the open adoption agreement at any time, the birthparent usually has no legal recourse.
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www.bastards.org/activism/access.htm
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SEALED RECORDS AND ADOPTION REFORM: An Historical Perspective ... As birthparents and adoptees, in particular, became less and less willing to remain silent, and wielding the club of shame became less and less effective, interestingly enough, sealed records laws became even more strict, and recently legislation was drafted...
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www.bastards.org/reform.htm
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Connecticut Law re Sealed Adoption Records ... The policies that supported closed adoption records often supported the notion that adoptees should not be told that they were adopted - a practice that is, today, considered by most authorities to be inappropriate, harmful to adopted children themselves and to their...
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www.cga.ct.gov/lrc/adoption/SealedRecordsReport.htm
www.cga.ct.gov/lrc/adoption/SealedRecordsReport.htm
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Most states in which the adoption records are sealed allow an adoptee to petition the court to receive identifying information. ... In adoptions that were finalized prior to July 1, 2001, adoption records should remain confidential and allow access only through the appointment of a confidential intermediary.
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www.adoptiononline.com/aecrecordsaccess.html
www.adoptiononline.com/aecrecordsaccess.html
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I'm all for having ALL the records open. Yeah!!! Every single U.S. citizen should be able to apply for and receive their OBC. And if all adoption records were opened, that would mean I would get to see the wording on the superfluous "pre-birth agreement" that the ... The last word of my question should say, "remain".
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To protect the integrity of the adoption process and the privacy of the people involved, most states, like Hawaii, had guaranteed confidentiality by mandating that adoption records would remain sealed unless the petitioner showed there was "good cause" to open the records.(142) The courts, however, did not have a...
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pages.infinit.net/orions/textes_divers/bobby_w_lum.htm
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The intentions behind confidentiality were benevolent, but sealed records created an oppressive adoption closet. ... Even though sealed records were recent inventions, rather than enduring features of adoption history, they were largely responsible for the adoption reform movement that gathered steam in the 1970s.
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www.uoregon.edu/~adoption/topics/confidentiality.htm
www.uoregon.edu/~adoption/topics/confidentiality.htm
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