This story out of The Clarion Ledger in Mississippi provides an example of why open records are needed and why adoptees need and deserve easier access to their medical records.

In the article, we are introduced to Lauren McCrary, an adult adoptee. Lauren and her twin brother were adopted together after their birth in 1969. Raised partially in Mississippi and then partially in Texas, Lauren remembers being told that she was adopted around eight or nine. She says she never had any problems being or knowing that she was adopted, but as she grew up... more

A recent article out of the Mid County Chronicle discusses the registry that is through The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) and the Texas Vital Statistics Central Adoption Registry. Through this registry adult adoptees can be reunited with birth parents or birth siblings who sign up looking for one another. The Registry began in 1984 and to date has registered more than 8, 100 people who were searching for one another including adult adoptees, birthmothers, birth fathers, and adult siblings.

According to Patricia Molina,... more

A story out of Liverpool recently caught my attention I was reading through my Google News Alerts. A young woman, Rachel Selby, will celebrate her twenty first birthday on March 22nd and she is hoping to locate her birthmother before then and invite her to her birthday party.

Searching occurs every day and is typically a challenge for birthparents and adoptees alike, but what makes this story a tad different is that Rachel was abandoned on the steps of a church in 1987 and discovered by two policemen. The police tried hard to find her... more