Open Records in Adoption Poll: 100% Favor Change in Laws

The Fight to Free Adoption Records

I have been eyeing that bit of real estate on my sidebar. The one where I have that poll. My side bar is too long. It’ just that my blogrools are huge. I guess I shoul dgo through them, but that always means that I must add more. Which is good, but it makes for a very long sidebar.
I guess it balances out my long posts.

Anyway, I have been counting down the days for the poll to end. It’s been up for over a year. It’s closed. Finially.

The results are rather surprising. But not.

If you haven’t noticed and have no idea what I am taklking about, then here, let me explain. I took a poll. I asked:

Do you support access for adult adoptees to obtain their Original Birth Certificate?

And you could answer yes or no and we to idenify which portion of the so called adoption triade you wee in.
So you could be an adoptee, an adoptive parent, a parent of loss, or not directly effected.

Two Hundred and fifty seven people voted.
100% of that 257 said yes.

And the breakdown was as follows:

Adoptees: 45 or 17%
Parents of Loss:68 or 26%
Adoptive Parents: 89 or 34%
Unaffected: 52 or 20%

Now what is really no that surprising is that everyone said yes, that they support open access for records. I mean, one would think hat anyone who came here would be of like mind.

But, there was once a time when people “on the other side” would purposely go and skew polls just to prove their point. Heck, I have rallied votes when needed.

What I find interesting and surprising is that no one voted no. Not one person. Someone who found their way here at least ONCE in over a year must have felt strongly in favor for closed recors.

Or maybe not.

And that, makes me ponder in a good way.

and now I can take down the poll!

About the Author

Claudia Corrigan DArcy
Claudia Corrigan D’Arcy has been online and involved in the adoption community since early in 2001. Blogging since 2005, her website Musings of the Lame has become a much needed road map for many mothers who relinquished, adoptees who long to be heard, and adoptive parents who seek understanding. She is also an activist and avid supporter of Adoptee Rights and fights for nationwide birth certificate access for all adoptees with the Adoptee Rights Coalition. Besides here on Musings of the Lame, her writings on adoption issue have been published in The New York Times, BlogHer, Divine Caroline, Adoption Today Magazine, Adoption Constellation Magazine, Adopt-a-tude.com, Lost Mothers, Grown in my Heart, Adoption Voice Magazine, and many others. She has been interviewed by Dan Rather, Montel Williams and appeared on Huffington Post regarding adoption as well as presented at various adoption conferences, other radio and print interviews over the years. She resides in New York’s Hudson Valley with her husband, Rye, children, and various pets.

1 Comment on "Open Records in Adoption Poll: 100% Favor Change in Laws"

  1. Personally I’m amazed that the largest chunk was adoptive parents. That says something really, really good. 🙂

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