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Reuniting families separated by adoption. If the birth or adoption was in South Carolina you are in the right place!



Fundamental right to know: Judge Wade S. Weatherford, Jr., Seventh Judicial Circuit Court, SC, said in a ruling on an adoptee’s petition to gain access to adoption records: "Mankind is possessed of no greater urge than to try to understand the age-old question: ’Who am I?’ ’Why am I?’... 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."
Judge Weatherford, Jr - 


Adoption Laws are exercised by individual state law - and not a federal law. The state law that applies to an adoption is where the adoption took place which is usually where the adoption parents resided or filed the adoption decree. In S.C. we have found adoptions that went thru the state where the parents were not a full resident at the time. The law applies to the state where the adoption took place which is usually where the adopted parents lived at the time the adoptee was placed in their home.

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Confidentiality in Adoption

Confidentiality in adoption means that those who are separated DO NOT and  CAN NOT know each other. 
In most states there are a minimum of seven ways people CAN and DO find and know each other without having an original birth certificate., 

Everyone has the right to refuse contact. 
That is the ONLY degree of confidentiality that exits, and it exists whether you do or do not have your original birth certificate. 

Several ways adult adoptees and birth parents can find each other under the sealed birth certificate system in most states

  •  GOOD CAUSE  - Under the law in most states, all sealed birth certificates may be  accessed with  a showing  of good cause.  The birth certificate accessed could be the one that locates the one birth parent or adoptee who does not want to be found. 

  • SUPPORT GROUPS - Support groups have a very good reputation for helping triad members  access birth information and locate birth relatives.  The relative they find may be the one 
    birth parent or adoptee that does not want to be found. 

  • BLACK MARKET - For a price, most people can be found if the information has not  been falsified,.Those with means can find; those without cannot

  • AGENCY SEARCHES  - Finding one member of the birth family gives possible access to all  members of the  birth family.  Access to any member may lead to the one birth parent who does not want to be found

  • INTERNET - Finding on the internet is rapidly becoming a science.  This can lead to the one  birth parent or adoptee who does not want to be found.

  • IDENTIFYING INFORMATION  - given to adoptive parents or keeping the adoptee's original  birth name could locate that one birth parent or adoptee who does not want to be found. 

  • PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS - can find the one birth parent or adoptee who does not want to found. 

Sealed birth certificates are a symbol of a confidentiality that does not exist -  Not when people can and do find each other daily. Unsealed birth certificates are a symbol of an adoptee's identity and their civil rights as a citizen.


 

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