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2. Adoption reunion registry - Wikipedia

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   In the United Kingdom, adoption law has been amended to allow for open adoptions, the right to access one's records, and a state-run adoption reunion registry has been established. Though many such registries are operated by government agencies, many private registries do exist, and can be found on the Web.

3. Adoptee rights - Wikipedia

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   Adoptee rights are the legal and social rights of adopted people relating to their adoption and identity. These rights frequently center on access to information which is kept sealed within closed adoptions, but also include issues relating to intercultural or international adoption, interracial adoption, and coercion of birthparents.

4. Adoption in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Adoption Reform encompasses family preservation, adoptees' access to original birth certificates, birth and adoptive families having direct access to each other (open adoption) and all related records (open records). The Adoption Triangle by Annette Baran, Reuben Pannor and Arthur Sorosky; Twice Born and Lost and Found by Betty Jean Lifton; I ...

5. International Soundex Reunion Registry - Wikipedia

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   Now one of many existing adoption reunion registries, Soundex is the oldest and largest of its kind. It served as a model for many state registries, for Senator Carl Levin 's U.S. Senate Bill's in the 1980s trying to establish a national adoption registry, [ 2 ] and into the 1990s [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and for the abundance of online registries ...

6. Sealed birth records - Wikipedia

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   Sealed birth records refers to the practice of sealing the original birth certificate upon adoption or legitimation, often making a copy of the record unavailable except by court order. Upon finalization of the adoption, the original birth certificate is sealed and replaced with an amended birth certificate declaring the adoptee to be the child ...

7. Open adoption - Wikipedia

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   Open adoption is a form of adoption in which the biological and adoptive families have access to varying degrees of each other's personal information and have an option of contact. While open adoption is a relatively new phenomenon in the west, it has been a traditional practice in many Asian societies, especially in South Asia, for many centuries.