This week a Senate panel in New Jersey finally unanimously approved a bill (S611) that will allow adult adoptess to get their original birth certificates which are currently sealed by law. This bill will allow adult adoptees or the adoptive parents of a child to petition the state registrar for a copy of the original birth certificate which contains the names of the adoptee’s biological parents.

Open record advocates have spent close to thirty years lobbying for this bill, so it has been a long time coming. They recruited rap star, Daryl McDaniels, who is known to most as DMC from the group Run DMC to help them get this passed.

Daryl McDaniels is an adoptee who didn’t learn... more

Allison Quets, the birthmother who kidnapped her twins last year, is back in the news again. She was recently sentenced and now the judge has ruled that she will have no visitation with her twins.

During her pregnancy, Allison suffered from hyperemesis gravidarum, a condition that makes you very ill and weak. Feeling very sick and weak from that condition, Allison signed relinquishment papers terminating her parental rights to her twins, Holly and Tyler.

Not long after singing the papers, Allison changed her mind and tried to revoke her consent yet the twins were not given back. Instead, Allison... more

Michelle and Andrew Ransavage, a couple from Minnesota, have been denied the ability to bring home the daughter that they named Mia and are in the process of adopting from China because of a conviction on charges of Driving While Impaired (DWI) against Andrew in January of 2007.

The adoption was approved by the adoption agency in 2007 but was stalled because of the conviction. While Michelle and her parents were in China to bring two and half year old Mia home in November, Andrew (who was at home in the US) received word that Mia’s move to the United States was denied by the regional office of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (also known as CIS) because of the... more