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03/02/06

Confidentiality and Searching

Posted by : Karen Sterner in Adoption Search Blog at 09:17 am , 702 words, 75 views
Categories: General Issues, Open Records, Confidentiality Issues

Confidentiality in adoption has been perceived as beneficial to all sides of the adoption triad in the closed adoption era. In the 80’s or 90’s it was almost unheard of adult adoptees to search for their birth parents and for birth parents to search for their children they placed for adoption. However, in the more recent past few years, searching for birth relatives has become more discussed.

Confidentiality, it has been said, is to protect birth parents from later intrusion into their lives by the child and to let them put the past behind them and move on with their... more

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