tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492432392123099485.post497702161195353238..comments2021-07-12T17:39:30.731-04:00Comments on Adoption Fusion: The U.S. Census ControversyJennyBHammondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07145326313538685909noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492432392123099485.post-56141618045677556732010-04-15T19:12:53.352-04:002010-04-15T19:12:53.352-04:00Well, since you asked for links, here's what I...Well, since you asked for links, here's what I wrote recently:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.babylovechild.org/2010/03/23/a-note-concerning-adoptees-with-sealed-records-not-in-reunion-and-the-census/" rel="nofollow">A note concerning adoptees with sealed records, not in reunion, and the census.</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492432392123099485.post-55236371213503829202010-04-09T20:33:53.163-04:002010-04-09T20:33:53.163-04:00Recently, I found the 2010 Census form hanging on ...Recently, I found the 2010 Census form hanging on my door. As I began filling it out, I came across a dilemma. The U.S. government wants to know if my children are adopted or not and it wants to know what our races are. Being adopted myself, I had to put “Other” and “Don’t Know Adopted” for my race and “Other” and “Don’t Know” for my kids’ races. <br /><br />Can you imagine not knowing your ethnicity, your race? Now imagine walking into a vital records office and asking the clerk for your original birth certificate only to be told “No, you can’t have it, it’s sealed.” <br /><br />How about being presented with a “family history form” to fill out at every single doctor’s office visit and having to put “N/A Adopted” where life saving information should be?<br /><br />Imagine being asked what your nationality is and having to respond with “I don’t know”.<br /><br />It is time that the archaic practice of sealing and altering birth certificates of adopted persons stops. <br /><br />Adoption is a 5 billion dollar, unregulated industry that profits from the sale and redistribution of children. It turns children into chattel who are re-labeled and sold as “blank slates”. <br /><br />Genealogy, a modern-day fascination, cannot be enjoyed by adopted persons with sealed identities. Family trees are exclusive to the non-adopted persons in our society. <br /><br />If adoption is truly to return to what is best for a child, then the rights of children to their biological identities should NEVER be violated. Every single judge that finalizes an adoption and orders a child’s birth certificate to be sealed should be ashamed of him/herself. <br /><br />I challenge all readers: Ask the adopted persons that you know if their original birth certificates are sealed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com