Adoptee group fights for access to parents' medical records

Adoptee group fights for access to parents' medical records - BBC

At present, birth parents can choose to have adoptive children notified of a serious disease but there is no obligation - and if an adopted ...

Filling in the blanks on adoptees' medical history

And if there's a way for adoptive parents to help their children connect with their biological family and obtain a medical history, "that needs ...

The Right and The Fight For Open Records For Adoptees

Adoptees adopted after September 18, 1996 may have access to these same documents when they turn 21 (and their adoptive parents can when the ...

A Walk into the Past: Access to Adoption Records

Sealing adoption records was originally created to protect the adoptee, adoptive parents, and birth mother during times when “society was not generally well- ...

Adoptees Gaining Ground in the Fight to Open Birth Records

Adoptee rights advocates have sent postcards to New York Gov. Cuomo against an open records bill that they say doesn't fully restore adoptee access to original ...

Do adoptees have a right to their birth family's medical history? How ...

There is no expectation of privacy for biological parents in adoption. So “birth parent's right to privacy”, in the sense that an adoptee has no ...

Filling in the blanks on adoptees' medical history

Gruneisen said that adoptive parents and pediatricians can work with children so they're ready to take ownership of their health when they reach ...

Adoptee Access to Birth Certificates Protects Their Parents' Privacy

Further, when the original birth records of adopted persons were sealed there was no mention of protecting mothers or father of birth. The ...

Why Adopted Children Should Have Access to Their Family Medical ...

However, concerns about privacy rights, as well as complicated bureaucratic legal avenues to information hold adoptees back from the knowledge ...

What It's Like to Fill in the Gaps in Your Health History When You're ...

What's more, the records that adopted people are able to access may consist of little more than a self-reported scrawl of “no medical issues” by ...

How Adoptees Are Filling In the Holes in Their Family Medical History

“I didn't have any interest in knowing my birth parents,” said Garland, who was adopted from Korea at 5 months old. But when he passed on this ...

MN Joins States Allowing Adoptees New Access to Birth Records

For decades, some Catholic groups, adoptive parents and adoption agencies opposed granting adoptees unfettered access to their vital records ...

Only 14 U.S. states allow unrestricted access to adoptees' own birth ...

I rarely hear it mentioned that in some states, birth parents can have their names redacted from the original birth certificate. So if an ...

Adoptees: the family void in our medical history - HealthandCare.Scot

A woman who was unaware she had a family history of breast cancer because she was adopted says current laws and privacy rules are adding to the trauma.

The Harsh Reality of Living Without any Medical History

Living without access to family medical history has serious consequences for adoptees ... Adult Adoptee Movement, A Community Interest Company

A Core Issue in Adoption: Identity - GR Therapy Group

birth family name · birth parents and extended family · birth story – date, location, time, with whom · their name given at birth · country · culture ...

Adoptions should have open medical records to warn people of ...

This is why adoption agencies should be required to provide open birth records and medical records of the adoptee's immediate biological family. While there are ...

Adoptees Press States for Access to Original Birth Certificates

In some states with open access, birth parents can file a “veto” petition with the state, saying they prefer to remain anonymous. Sociological ...

Texan Adoptees Are Fighting for the Right to Access Their Own Birth ...

Fed up with DNA tests and expensive investigators, some adult adoptees are fighting the state for access to their original birth records.

I Could Have Gone To Prison For What I Did To Find My Birth Parents

"The vast majority of the now 5 million adoptees in the United States have no right to our original birth certificates, our medical ...