Adoption Rights: Law Change Would Be Emotional. Sue Scheible.
by Scheible, Sue; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 10Family. Publisher: Patriot Ledger, 2005ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Adoptees | Adoption | Adoption -- Law and legislation | Adoptive parents | Birth certificates | Birthparents | Birthparents -- Identification | Intercountry adoption | Massachusetts | Public records -- Access control | Public records -- Law and legislationDDC classification: 050 Summary: This article examines proposed Massachusetts legislation that would provide adopted people born in that state with "a copy of their original birth certificate, with the names of their birth mother and birth father, when they turn 18. Their adopted parents could ask for the copy if the adoptee were still a minor." (PATRIOT LEDGER) The key points for and against the legislation are presented and the case histories of several adoptees are included.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Adoption Rights: Law Change Would Be Emotional, Jan. 29/30, 2005; pp. 1+.
This article examines proposed Massachusetts legislation that would provide adopted people born in that state with "a copy of their original birth certificate, with the names of their birth mother and birth father, when they turn 18. Their adopted parents could ask for the copy if the adoptee were still a minor." (PATRIOT LEDGER) The key points for and against the legislation are presented and the case histories of several adoptees are included.
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