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  2. Florence Anna Fisher - Wikipedia

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    In a 1974 Time article, Fisher said, "People today are finding secrecy evil. They are more open and they want to know the truth." [2] She maintained that whether an adoptive home was supportive or abusive is irrelevant to the damage done by adoption, because adoptees still grapple with questions of identity. [3]

  3. Closed adoption - Wikipedia

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    Closed adoption (also called "confidential" adoption and sometimes "secret" adoption) is a process by which an infant is adopted by another family, and the record of the biological parent(s) is kept sealed. Often, the biological father is not recorded—even on the original birth certificate.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Adoptee rights - Wikipedia

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    Adoptee rights are the legal and social rights of adopted people relating to their adoption and identity. These rights frequently center on access to information which is kept sealed within closed adoptions, but also include issues relating to intercultural or international adoption, interracial adoption, and coercion of birthparents.

  6. New York State Office of Children and Family Services

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    The New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) is an agency of the New York state government. [1] [2] The office has its headquarters in the Capital View Office Park in Rensselaer. [3] Along with the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance it is part of the pro forma Department of Family Assistance.

  7. My parents kept my adoption a secret. At 47, I ... - AOL

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    We’d text after every New York Rangers game. He’d join my wife, Jennifer, and me at her family gatherings for holidays. My parents and me on my college graduation day in 1995.