Should an adopted adult have the same rights to identifying information about his or her origins as all non-adopted adults?
Yes
Comments:
I was abopted when I was 2 months old in 1952 by my aunt Margaret and her husband Benjanin Verner. I was from a large family and abopted into a large family. My oldest sister was also adopted into my family, so I was raised with my sister. Benjamine and Margaret Verner were the finest people who ever lived. I owe my life to them. They had one child of their own, but raised 28 children (not all at the same time). They were honest with me and I knew, that I was adopted at a very early age. As a young boy I fantized as to who my real parents were (like in the movies, a Prince who was separated from his lover by death or some other misfortunate event) It was with some dismay that I found out that my real father was my crazy uncle Clifford. And then to find out that my mother was handicaped, sick, and died when I was two years old.
My point here is that all adopted children should know who there real parents are, even if those parents have unfortunate backgrounds. It gives the children a sence of history, of being grounded, knowing where they came from.
For example, one of my sisters got married when she was 24, that is when her abopted partents told here that she was abopted and has 10 brothers and sisters. This was a tramatic experience for her, however, it was with delight that she got to meet all of us, and most of us attended her wedding.
Abotped children should know who there biological parents are.
