Finding Birth Parents

Paper Summary:

This paper argues that adopted children should have the right to decide whether or not they want to meet their birth parents. The author relates that five basic steps of the adoption process. The paper underscores that it is completely normal for children to want to know about their adoptive parents to see where they come from and if they have any siblings. However, adoptive parents worry that finding the birth parents could be dangerous to their children and could change the rest of their lives in negative ways. The paper concludes that bringing birth parents and adopted children together reunites the missing pieces of all their lives.

From the Paper:

"The birth parents put their children up for adoption for many different reasons. Some are too young to be having a child, some don't have enough money to be able to support their child, some were raped and don't want anything to do with the child, some are crazy and threaten to beat or even kill their child, etc. About 20-30 percent of birth parents never want to see their child again. Some say that if they ever did see their child again, they would kill them. Most birth parents, however, do wish to meet up with their children one day and keep updated on how they're doing and what they look like."

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