- Ruling on approving an adoptee's petition to gain access
to adoption records
Judge Wade S. Weatherford, Jr - SC Seventh
Judicial Circuit Court
Ruling on approving an adoptee’s petition to gain access to adoption
records by Judge Wade S. Weatherford, Jr. Resident Judge, Seventh
Judicial Circuit Court, South Carolina. Bradey v. Children’s Bureau of
South Carolina, (Spartanburg County, S.C., Ct. C.P., Apr. 9, 1979),
rev’d, 275 S.C. 622, 174 S.E. 2nd 418 (1981).:
“ The law must be consonant with life. It cannot and should not ignore
broad historical currents of history. Mankind is possessed of no greater
urge than to try to understand the age-old questions: “Who am I” “Why am
I?” Even now the sands and ashes of the continents are being sifted to
find where we made our first step as man. Religions of mankind often
include ancestor worship in one way or another. For many the future is
blind without a sight of the past. Those emotions and anxieties that
generate our thirst to know the past are not superficial and whimsical.
They are real and they are “good cause” under the law of man and God.”
The petition is conditionally granted.
IT IS SO ORDERED
April 9, 1979
[Signed]
WADE S. WEATHERFORD, JR.
Resident Judge, Seventh Judicial
Circuit Court, South Carolina
If the adoptee is able to get any background info,
the medical history is usually as old as when the adoption occurred.
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Adoption vs. Abortion Myths
Debunked in Letter to a Student -
pdf reader
(PRWEB) April 19, 2004--If you think abortion is
an emotional subject, try speaking honestly about adoption! An adoptee who
speaks up with anything less than glowing terms about adoption or even
mentions the mother who gave her up is frequently told she is being
selfish and inconsiderate of the wonderful people who adopted her. And as
for a natural mother? How dare she even make her presence known after what
she did! ..............
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Access
to Identifying Information
One of the key adoption policy
issues over the past several years has been the extent to which members of
the adoption triad should have access to identifying information. The
debate has raged both nationally - with the proposal currently pending in
Congress for a National Voluntary Reunion Registry - and at the state
level where bills are being introduced to allow adopted adults to obtain
their original birth certificates ...........
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Abortion Rates are
Lower in Open Record States
The abortion rates for Alaska and Kansas are both LESS
than the rate than for the United States as a whole -- 19.4 and 12.7
abortions respectively , by residents, divided by numbers of women aged
15-44, in thousands. The national abortion rate was 25.8, while the rates
for surrounding states were 21.9 for Colorado, 17.0 for Missouri, 13.9 for
Nebraska, and 12.7 for Oklahoma.
The National Center for Court Statistics reported that the 1992 rate of
adoptions per thousand live births were 31.2 nationally, 53.5 in Alaska
and 48.4 in Kansas, two open records states, but lower in surrounding
states with sealed records laws (CO, 26 .0; MO, 27.5; NE, 42.4; and OK
47.6). [Source: Flango & Flango, National Center for Court Statistics,
"How Many Children Were Adopted in 1992," 74 Child Welfare 1018, 1021-22
(1995)]. ..............
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Lifelong Issues in Adoption
Discusses how adoption is a lifelong, intergenerational process
that unites the triad of birth families, adoptees, and adoptive
families............
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States with Open Records
Alabama
Alaska
Kansas
New Hampshire
Oregon
Tennessee (Contact Veto)
Delaware (Disclosure Veto)
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States with Pending Legislation
North Carolina (for
release of the original birth certificate) coming up again in 2009
