Openness: Open Records & Open Adoption

The issues of open adoption (post-adoption contact between adoptive and birth families) and open records (adult adoptee access to their original birth information) are two of the hottest topics in adoption today. Learn more here.

Open Adoption

Open adoption does not mean shared parenting. Learn what it does mean with definitions, explanations, opinions, personal accounts, and legal considerations.

• Opening a Closed Adoption
• Learn About Open Adoption
• Personal Stories: Open Adoption
• The Debate Over Open Adoption

Open Records

Learn about this issue that has the adoption community locked in debate. Sealed adoption records prevent adult adopted persons from obtaining personal information about themselves that is available to all other adults. The issue, supporters, opponents,

• The Open Records Debate
• Access to Records & Information
• Open Records for Adult Adoptees
• Sealed Records: The Last Stigma
• Background Articles
• Open Records Advocacy Groups

Symposium on Openness in Adoption

This report on the Dave Thomas Center for Adoption Law symposium contains what you need to know about open adoption and open records. There were proposals for changes in practice, lots of discussion, and some surprises along the way.

• Biographies of Participants

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