When I asked about why OBC’s weren’t available to adoptees like they were to everyone else, I got told, “Well, if birth mothers knew the children they placed could go and find them just like that, less would be willing to place.”

First of all, I believe that’s complete crap. Secondly, why is everyone so against parents raising their own children? Why is it a bad thing that less women would choose adoption?

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I cannot wait for the day that adoptees are treated as equal citizens through-out the world.

When we all can walk into our vital records office and order a copy of our original, unaltered birth certificate for the same fee that everyone else pays.

The last time I tried to get my OBC(original birth certificate), she leaned over to me and whispered “are you adopted?” shortly after explaining to her that I knew my mother and father and was in reunion with them, she walked to the back and disappeared. Up came her supervisor who told me my records were sealed for my own protection and she called quickly for the next person in line not even giving me a chance to speak.

I felt like I didn’t exist. I felt so dismissed, and so violated.

Thank you for speaking out for all of us who have our identities held hostage by the state.