Here's the letter Janine B. sent in response to the article published in the San Francisco Examiner titled: "Fight Over Adoption Secrecy!"
The editorial headlining that birth parents are
"elders"
who need "privacy" from children
relinquished to adoption
is a shrill, hysterical
fantasy. The reality is that many
of the elders in
adoption today are the middle-aged
and older
adoptees who seek to pass along genealogical
and
medical information to their own children and
grandchildren
before they die.
Adult adoptees are neither children nor vengeful
psychopaths
in an alliance with their mothers'
rapists. Your tale of horror
and fear is the
latest and most extreme
in the ongoing abrogation
of the rights of citizens
who are forbidden from
seeing their own birth certificates
through no
fault of their own but as a result of archaic
laws
that have existed in California since 1935.
Janine Baer
El Cerrito
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