Should Adoption Records Be Confidential?.
Adoption has been a controversy topic or many years. Adoption is a safe way to realize that you cannot raise your child but need someone else to take over the child. Many parents are very young when they had the child, leaving them with two decisions, adoption or abortion. Hopefully, the parents choose adoption in the decision making process. If so, the parents should realize that they made a mistake, and have to live through the consequences. Once the child is conceived, he/she is a living creature, created miraculously by God. When the child is born, he/she should receive the right to know who their parents are, where they originated from, and their family history. The parents need to take responsibility for their child, and simply allow that child to be able to contact them any time during their lifetime. It is very important that the parent realizes that they have a child that will eventually be wondering about inheriting personality traits, family history, hair color etc. Therefore, making the medical and contact records available to the child at any time is very important. The child does have individual rights, such as: who and where the child came from, medical past, and the history of the family, and the child especially needs to know why they have become who they are today. . The parents need to take the child's emotions and curiosity into consideration, and allow the availability of any kind of records. The parent had the child, therefore, should take responsibility for that special and unique child. .
On the other hand, the parents also have individual rights; when a mother has a baby, the mother nurses, holds, feeds, burps, and makes sure all the baby's needs are met. In the same sense, the child's emotions and feelings should come first, before the parent's needs, in circumstances such as adoption records. If the child is having problems in his/her life with knowing family history, medical past, or simply knowing personality traits, the child does have a right to know.
