Should an adopted adult have the same rights to identifying information about his or her origins as all non-adopted adults? Yes / No / I'm not sure
Comments: Adopted adults should be able to have all medically pertinent information about their birth parents. Birth parents should have the right to remain anonymous and private.
Parents who gave their child up for adoption should have the privacy of not being contacted by a child against their will. It could ruin their rebuilt lives. They may never have told anyone of their pregnancy.
The time to start changing this is now by more open adoptions. Some parents may still want a closed adoption and that should be their right. Open adoptions will gradually change the views of those who desire privacy. We should never press our desires to know, on to another and thus take away their right to remain private. Continued education about the benefits of open adoption will fix the problem some adoptee's are feeling.
Sincerely, Irma DeVries
