Should an adopted adult have the same rights to identifying information about his or her origins as all non-adopted adults?
Every adopted person (and the adopting parents in the case of a very young person) should have the right to know about any medical, mental, psychiatric, genetic, etc. conditions in the adopted person's "biological" family, to the extent known, amongst that individual's parents and any siblings, and amongst the parents' parents and siblings, but on condition of anonymity for all of these relatives.
Beyond that, I feel that if an adopted adult wishes to reconnect with her/his natural parents or other "biological" family members, the government should assist in the process, but not go so far as to actually identify any of those other relatives if they wish to remain anonymous. That said, I understand that many people who've given up a child to adoption want to conceal their identity because they are fearful, ashamed, etc., and that it is these feelings that sometimes delay or even block a reunion.
Fortunately, such feelings are often overcome with time and maybe some counselling, and I think the government should facilitate that process by offering assistance to these individuals to overcome their "reluctancies". This could involve encouragement to seek counselling, and also serving as an occasional messenger to pass on communications from the person who is seeking the reunion but, again, only on condition that the "seeker" cannot learn the identity of the "sought" if they do not want their identities to be divulged. Hopefully, those individual(s) who are being "sought" will eventually agree to a reunion, but if they choose the opposite, my sense is that it should not be forced upon them.
