[bgill]

I've always known that I wanted to find my birth parents

It's all about MEEEE! There's a good chance the birth parents don't want to be found.

[markman46]

No sorry it not about MEEEEEE it’s about getting some info on your background, not all adoptee’s want or need to meat they birth parents. I sure done want to, as they are most likely already dead

[Bubba_Leroy]

I am all for voluntary registries where birth parents and adopted children can sign up if they want to find each other. But if either side does not want to be found then they should have the right to be left alone.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Mine did. I met her through CUB.

http://www.cubirthparents.org/

[Kenny Bunk]

I have always had the inner feeling that I may be the Lost Tsarevich. I know I am not Le Dauphin Perdu because that clearly is Barack Hussein Obama II, (or Jr.)

Mom!Dad!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

There is the other side.

There are relatives of the child who are looking for them.

Some knew about the adoption from the beginning. Some did not know until long after.

[goldbux]

Every individual has the fundmental right to know his true genealogical identity. Bloodline personality characteristics are indelibly stamped through DNA into every cell in one's body.

Adoptees cut off from this knowledge have had their lives shunted onto an entirely different track.

[EDINVA]

Try reading the article. Birth parents can opt out and say they don’t want to be contacted.

I can’t imagine being a full-grown adult and not knowing anything of my background, who gave birth to me, under what circumstances, what siblings I might have, what genetic predisposition I might have inherited for various diseases. Yeah, damned right under those circumstances it would be about ME!