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By Carrie Craft, About.com Guide to Adoption since 2004

And Yet Another View

Friday December 17, 2004
One reader sent me the following email and her permission to post it, Thanks Sunny.
    Of the approximately 297,000,000 people in the U.S. 60,000 are members of the Adoption Tri-Ad. Of the other 240,000,000 maybe another 40-60 million are touched by adoption, that's still around 180,000,000 people in the country who probably never give the need for open records a thought. I'm glad the issue of adoption is getting national exposure. It's about time the country wake-up and realize Civil Liberties are being violated with closed records. I hope this FOX show gives adoptees a louder voice than ever. I like to focus on the positive and people (outside those touched by adoption) are finally taking notice.
So there is another way to view the up-coming "Who's Your Daddy?" show on Fox. This show could bring about an awareness of the closed record issue.

"Who's Your Daddy?" is scheduled to appear in a 90 minute special on Fox, January 3, 2005. I will be watching this controversial show. Until then chew on the following articles sent in by an adoptee and a birth mother on the issue of open records.
  • Model Open Records Legislation - Tools for Open Records Activism
  • The Charter of Adoptee Rights
  • Open Records: A Motherhood Issue

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