A birth certificate records the biological parents.
Actually it's common practice, and has been for quite some time, to either reissue a new certificate or amend or shreds a new one upon adoption. The practice got started just before we came to understand the genetic component of many diseases.
45 posted on 12/27/2008 11:08:26 PM PST by El Gato
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