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Rights and Adopted Children What rights under law should adopt

What rights under law should adopted children be given concerning obtaining information about their biological parents? This paper endeavors to formulate an answer to this question by examining the literature on open and closed adoption.

To this end, the paper first explores empirical research and conceptual arguments in favor of open adoption; this exploration is followed by an examination of research and arguments in favor of closed adoption. The final section of the paper analyzes both arguments and formulates a conclusion concerning open and closed adoptions in general as well as concerning the open adoption principle regarding whether adoptees should have the legal right to obtain information about their biological parents in particular.

Arguments In Favor Of Open Adoption

Austinson (1995) defines open adoption as an adoption system in which one or both of the birth parents (usually the mother) participates in the placement process and in which the records of the mother are available to the child at a given age; however, she notes that in some cases, open adoption can also include ongoing contact by one or both biological parents with the adoptive family and child. Closed adoption is characterized as adoption in which the records of the biological parents are not made available to the adoptee at any age, biological parents do not participate in the placement process nor do they have any contact with the adoptive family or child (Austinson, 1995).

One way in which researchers have attempted to examine and answer the question of whether adoption should be open or closed is to examine the experiences of families that have resulted from each adoptive system. In this regard, Lauderdale and Boyle (1994) presented a comprehensive review of the literature about women who had relinquished their infants for adoption and described the experiences of 12 women (aged 1853 years) whose children had been adopted.

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