[SuddenlySusan]

Twins separated at birth marry each other!

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...-12377,00.html

No, I didn't have twins, but the son I surrendered has a female sibling... and cousins as well. In a closed adoption, I never knew where he was. I didn't even know WHO he was.

With closed records, adopted persons are forbidden to know who they are...who they are related to. Guess who one of the largest opponents of open records is... yup! The National Council for Adoption. Tell me how that makes any kind of sense.

Those who oppose open records deny individuals their basic human right to know who they are, and actively work to place adopted persons in jeopardy by denying them this basic information as well as important medical information.

Just my opinion, however.
Susan

[belleinblue1978]

I have 4 older brothers in my first family, all full siblings. My adoptive mom was petrified I would fall in love with one of them when I was living in a town about an hour from them. I apparently have met all of them without knowing it, scary huh?

[loveajax]

we learned that my husband (adopted) and his half-brother went to the same high school (did not fall in love, but still!).

Our state just opened up records, but only for babies born pre-1974. Huh? I totally agree with open records.

[SchmennaLeigh]

My Husband brought it up last night (he's attuned to adoption in the news now) and said, "That's why I'm glad that Munchkin's got all her info. I wish others did, too."

Good job, Husband.

[Blessed2x.]

My husband showed me another version of this article this morning! How scary! One quote from the article I read that stuck out was something like "humans have the fundamental right to know who they are.."

[krystabelle]

Absolutely adoptees should know who they came from. Closed or not. And not simply because of weird things like separately adopted twins marrying each other. I think it's a basic right. I know that opens up the possibility of adoptees contacting their bioparents, and that may not be wanted for whatever reasons. But I think it is inhumane to deny someone the right to leave that information available to their child or to deny that information to that child.
Even I, who does not want my daughter to have any contact with her birthfather because of his destructive and selfish behavior, believe she should know who he is and have that information available to her. (Information does not mean a relationship, thankfully.)

[loveccl]

I read this and could not stop talking about it...

As a birthmother I have always felt that it was the child right to know in this case and for medical reasons...

I actually told a close friend and my own male cousin that the men they knew to be thier fathers were not. The close friend began a wonderful realtionship with his real father and family. My aunt was mad and ended contact, but I still feel that my cousin had a right to know.

I get the adoptive parents want to keep records private, but this is just one case that we know of...how many others are there?

Loveccl