The Need for Prohibition of Open Adoption Records

Paper Outline. 1. Introduction: a) The relationship between the development of a person and a possible damage done by the knowledge of the adoption records. Adoption can play an important role in a person's self-development and self actualization; however only when let to know at a right time. b) Current view on the adoption situation. 2. Body: Three reasons supporting the view. a) Keeping the confidentiality of the side which rejected a child. b) Disrupting effects the …

…known arises from society's reluctance to recognize that we are not speaking of children. Bibliography: 1.Birmingham, Barbara. Why Didn't She Keep Me?: Answers to the Brown Questions Every Adopted Child Asks. South Bend, IN: Diamond Communications, 1998. 2.Berebitsky, Julie. Like Our Very Own: Adoption and the Changing Culture of Motherhood, 1851-1950. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2000. 3.Akhtar, Salman and Kramer, Selma eds. Thicker Than Blood: Bonds of Fantasy and Reality in Adoption. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 2000.