It’s about Rights

Reunions happen all the time in spite of sealed record laws. Mine certainly did! Adoptees’ ability to access their own birth certificates is a matter of equitable rights, not reunion. It is independent of whether or not the parties involved select to have contact with one another. One’s adoption status should not remove a right…

DNA Testing

Consumer DNA testing is helping to answer questions for for more and more adoptees every day. A few times a week, I read about adoptees, or children of adoptees, who’ve successfully used this technology. They are able to learn of their heritage or find biological family members. As testing has come more affordable, it has…