Your Adoption Triad Finder

~ legislation in massachusetts aims to open adoption birth records ~

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~ birth adoption resources ~

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~ adoptees respond to open adoption ~

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~ open adoption practiced in california ~

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~ MO Search reunites lost loves ~

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~ new jersey adoptees persevere in efforts to locate biological relatives ~

For an adoptee, knowing the name of a birth parent is one thing.
Finding that parent is another story entirely.
Even if the Legislature passes a law giving adoptees access to their original birth certificates, there's no guarantee that adoptees would be able to locate their parents.
To do that, some adoptees hire private investigators. Some are able to find their relatives through the state's adoption registry, while others do their own research.

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~ indiana medical history may not be available for adoptees - despite new law ~

But advocates and the state official responsible for assisting adoptees in finding information about their birth parents say the new law won't help many adopted Hoosiers -- and particularly not older adoptees, like Romano, who are seeking medical records.
"The problem is the law did not require agencies to collect medical histories until 1986. Most hospitals only keep records for 10 years, and many agencies only have records for the last 20 or 25 years," said Mary Hinds, the assistant state registrar.

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~ Internet brings adoptive parents, birth mother together ~

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~ Pennsylvania - Adoptees’ search for answers ~

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~ Iowa: Needing to find the natural connection ~

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~ Indiana adoptees and birth parents can connect ~

Release of adoption history. Requires a person, a licensed child placing agency, or a county office of family and children to release to an adult adoptee certain social, medical, psychological, and educational records and reports concerning the adoptee, including adoption information from adoptions granted before July 1, 1993. Read the bill

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~ Nevada bill would clarify adoption rights ~

AB51 brings state law into line with a state Supreme Court decision that says agreements for contact between a mother - or father - and the adopted child are enforceable only if the agreement signed by both the natural parent and the adoptive parents is part of an adoption decree.

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~ Adoption is no longer considered shameful — so why do we still have 1950s-era laws? ~

But he’s run up against a brick wall called Pennsylvania’s adoption law in his search. His records have either been destroyed, are sealed by the courts or are simply private under state law.

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~ Hundreds of adoptees in N.H. seek birth certificates ~

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~ Indiana adoption reconnection ~

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~ connecting the adoption triad in Michigan ~

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~ open adoption brings families together ~

When a parent decides to give their child up for adoption it affects the biological family, the adoptive family, and the child.

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~ Maine adoptions - opening closed records ~

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