Adoption Reform

"The law must be consonant with life. It cannot and should not ignore broad historical currents of history. Mankind is possessed of no greater urge than to try to understand the age-old questions: "Who am I?", and "Why am I?" Even now the sands and ashes of the continents are being sifted to find where we made our first steps as man. Religions of mankind often include ancestor worship in one way or another. For many the future is blind without sight of the past. Those emotions and anxieties that generate our thirst to know the past are not superficial and whimsical. They are real and they are "good cause" under the law of man and God."
By the Hon. Wade Weatherford, S. Carolina Circuit Court Judge

"It is time to stop buying into the myths that legions of birth mothers will be hurt by adoptee access to their information. The data from states that have enacted access laws, as well as the research, shows that the majority of birth mothers of every age welcome information, if not contact. No harm to any party to adoption has resulted from access. Adopted persons need their information, the information that all non-adopted persons have. Secrecy has harmed all in adoption, most profoundly those few birth parents who harbor a secret so profound that it promises to ultimately harm them. No one has the right to reunion, but the adoptee has the right to know his or her story. That right, ancient and primal, is the foundation of healthy human development."
By Mary Martin Mason, AAC’s Legislation Director

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