“I’m adopted. No.”
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Not to be contrary, but why not? Is there a certificate that serves the same purposes as a birth certificate, but still keeps certain issues private, such as names of the birth parents.
What would people use in lieu of a birth certificate?
For example, what would you use for a passport application?
I’m not sure, but I think when one is adopted, they’re given a new birth certificate with their adoptive parents’ names on it. Which is why in the story they refer to the “original” birth certificate.
A new birth certificate, with your new name, is issued at the time of adoption, so I have one, just like everyone else does.
The children are issued a birth certificate just like any other child. When the adoption is finalized, the adoptive parents can request that a new birth certificate be issued with the adoptive parents listed as the mother and father.
As an adoptive mother I can answer this. Both my daughters have birth certificates that were reissued with my husband and me as the birthparents after the adoptions were finalized. In fact they have both received passports using those birth certificates. This issue really gets me worked up because my oldest daughter was born to a birthmother who was married and her husband was not the father. Once she chose to give my daughter life and place her for adoption she chose to have no contact with us. She deserves that!! She chose to give her life, she deserves her privacy!