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2. Closed adoption - Wikipedia

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   Closed adoption has been increasingly criticized in recent years as being unfair to both the adoptee and their birth parents. Some people believe that making the identities of a child's parents a state secret is a gross violation of human rights. On the other hand, the birth mother may have desired the secrecy because of the circumstances of ...

3. Sealed birth records - Wikipedia

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   Sealed birth records refers to the practice of sealing the original birth certificate upon adoption or legitimation, often making a copy of the record unavailable except by court order. Upon finalization of the adoption, the original birth certificate is sealed and replaced with an amended birth certificate declaring the adoptee to be the child ...

4. Adoptee rights - Wikipedia

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   The Adoptee Rights Law Center has been a vocal opponent of baby boxes as being a temporary, inadequate solution to problems facing new parents. [14] Anonymous infant relinquishment also echoes the problems of closed adoption, with adoptees left without information about their background or their medical history. [14]

5. Adoption reunion registry - Wikipedia

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   Generally, such adoption registries exist only in countries which practiced closed adoption, i.e. adoption in which the full identities of the birth parents, birth family members and the adopting family are not readily disclosed. Some reunion registries are based on mutual consent and do matches from the information provided by the registrants.

6. After closed adoption, woman finds her birth mother in an ...

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7. “I Always Wanted To Find Them”: Man Reunites With His Family ...

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   A man’s lifelong dream was fulfilled in time for Christmas after he reunited with his biological family 75 years after being adopted ... only child to his adoptive parents, said with emotion ...