Adoption

in Canada

There are many ways to go about finding your birth parents. The most effective one is the Adoption Registry, that you must register with the Adoption Disclosure Registry. Upon doing that there are seven steps that need to be followed. These seven steps are:

1. To obtain all the necessary information that is non-identifying about your birth family.

2. Find out where you can register with the Adoption Disclosure Registrar. Just to remember that it take approximately 1 year to wait before any information is checked.

3. As the Registrar is checking on the information to see if there is a match.

4. If there is a match then there is mandatory counselling with the adoptee and the birth parent.

5. If there is a consent between the birth parent and child, then the identifying information is disclose.

6. Upon the release of identifying information, along with the counselling and where there is counsellor present to act as a sounding board.

7. The last step is the reunion between birth parent and adoptee.

On a side note, counselling is only mandatory when the identifying information is released to the adoptee or birth relative.

The ones that are not so lucky just means that the birth family in Ontario does not know that you can register with the registry. Then the search would take 10 to 15 years for a match to occur.