Ontario overhauls adoption laws
Gillian Livingston
Canadian Press
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
TORONTO -- After nearly 80
years of secrecy surrounding adoptions, Ontario is planning to open records and give adults who were adopted as children the right to learn more about their birth parents.
In opposing adoptees' access to their birth certificates, Deborah Jacobs, executive director of ACLU-NJ, mentions due process and privacy issues due to promised confidentiality.Why does ACLU-NJ, which vigorously advocates "open and transparent government," oppose open and transparent adoption, where a child exchanges families and is thereafter denied the truth of her/his origins?
Yes, I love you - no matter how I became your mother@ 4:11 PM
By Karen McQuestion
How often do I think about the fact that two of my kids were adopted? About as often as I remember that the third one wasn't. That is to say, not very often. Unless they bring it up.
@ 12:44 PMCARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Angela Chalmers-Howald was 39, trying to cope with her mother's recent suicide and "alone and desperate" when she first considered giving up her baby girl for adoption.
When told she could request yearly visitation, photographs of her daughter - even a video of her first steps - in a contract with her daughter's new adoptive parents, the decision became an easier one.
Chalmers-Howald is one of the people behind a Nevada proposal to clarify birth mothers' rights in open adoptions. An open adoption is one in which there is communication between the birth and adoptive parents, and the proposed bill would formalize the process for laying out the terms of that communication.
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