| Name | Party | Connection with adoption | Types of legislation supported for adult adoptee access to original birth certificate. Options given: i) unconditional, ii) with contact veto, iii) with disclosure veto) |
Types of legislation supported for birth parent access to adoptee's amended birth certificate. Options given: i) unconditional, ii) with contact veto, iii) with disclosure veto) |
Comments |
| Doug Brown | Progressive Conservative | Adoptee A member of immediate family is adopted |
with disclosure vetoes | with contact and disclosure vetoes | In response to your questionnaire, may I offer the following thoughts,
after consideration regarding my own situation and conversation with my
sister and a few other adult adoptees, birth parents and adoptee
parents.
I am an adoptee as is my sister. We would support adult adoptees having access to their own records of birth unless the birth parents filed a disclosure veto preventing the release of the information. We would support an adoptee being able to file a contact veto (forbidding birth parents to contact the adoptee). Finally, we would support giving birth parents access to amended birth certificate unless the adoptee filed a disclosure veto preventing the release of the information. |
| Judy Marsales | Liberal | none | with contact vetoes | with contact OR disclosure vetoes | |
| Jo Pavlov | Green | an extended family member is adopted | with contact vetoes | with contact vetoes |
I am involved in a childfree movement -- it's mostly a social group for
people who have chosen not to have children, but many issues do come up on
our discussion board. For people who do not want children and who know they
would be terrible parents, or who don't want to expose a child to a life
they know would be destructive (alcholic family, drugs, violence)... well,
those people have a right to a childfree life. If for some reason they had
a child as a teen, or didn't believe in abortion, and gave the child up for
adoption, I believe the parent has a right to not have that child in their
life once they have chosen to give the child up.
Conversely, I think children have a RIGHT to know the circumstances surrounding their birth, a medical history and things like that. It is proven things like alcoholism or heart disease are genetic, and every human has a right to know details. But I don't think the birth parent should be contacted if they don't want to be. Also, I don't believe the adoptee should be contacted by the birth parent, if that is not what they want. Actually, I don't know what I think about amended birth certificates. I think they should remain the same throughout your life, even if you marry or whatever. I don't think I know enough about this issue to comment. But I do believe adoptee and birth parent both have the right to veto contact. |
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