In today's climate where a child's right to know the details of the circumstances of its birth is coming closer to a common ideal, this story from the UK shows how far the concept can go.

Ministers and peers in both Commons and Lords are recommending that children born from donate sperm or eggs should "have that fact recorded on their birth certificates'" in an effort to protect the state from implied complicity in lies if the children are not told the truth.

It's the head of science and ethics at the British Medical Association that wrote this op/ed piece, and she... more

"Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it." George Santayana

Gazing backwards over history may sound like a practice in calm meditation, but when a specific topic is the focus of the retrospective examination what comes into view is often more shocking than appeasing, generating a perception shift that may greatly influence how today's world is seen and understood.

We see this in the adoption world regularly. Books like "The Girls Who Went Away" and "The Baby Thief" go a long way toward relieving... more