This publication, released in November 2007 for National Adoption Awareness month, represents the most comprehensive examination to date of one of the most controversial, emotional issues in the modern adoption world: whether adopted people, once they become adults, should have access to their original birth information. This report suggests that all states change their laws so that the answer is "yes."

This policy paper is the result of the broadest, most extensive examination to date of the various issues related to state laws governing adult adopted persons' access to their original birth certificates and/or adoption records. The information and recommendations in this paper are drawn from a review and analysis of past and current state laws; legislative history in states across the country; decades of experience on relevant issues; and the body of research relating to sealed and open records on the affected parties.

From the linked webpage there is access to an executive summary and the full report.

Mission

• To provide support, encouragement and guidance to all members of the adoption community in a positive and healing manner.

• To enlighten those connected to adoption by encouraging them to follow their bliss and to use their creativity as a means of finding the path to healing.

• To promote truth and understanding both within the adoption community and society as a whole.

• To educate professionals and the general public regarding the issues relating to the adoption community.

• To assist in bringing accountability and consistency to the highly unregulated adoption industry.

• Honesty In Adoption fully supports equal access to original birth certificates for everyone.

Our goal is for everyone in the adoption community to embark on a journey of healing by acknowledging truth and embracing a path of health, prosperity, creative expression and abundance.

"I wanted to create a single location to share the information I've collected over the years and to encourage others, who like me are a little shy in their activism, to get involved in whatever way they are comfortable with.