Reply #9: Many things about medical records have changed

[Erika]

Now, the vast majority of adoptees do have medical records, because the parents are known. The courts in the country are enacting laws to identify both parents. DNA has made all the difference in the world in identifying fathers and getting their sign-off on adoptions.

Laws are including that the medical history of the parents are turned over to the adoptive parents.

I think alot if this is a maturity matter which a previous poster stated. Many parents decide to keep the child and for one reason or another the child goes thru hell because the parent(s) are not good parents. Many unwanted pregnancies end in abortion.

Loving adoptive parents are to be treasured. I also very much appreciate that people are willing to bring up there is pain in adoptions. This fact is many times hidden and replaced with a Utopian dream that is not reality.

I was so touched with the news article that Tsunami parents who had lost their children were going to orphanages to care for children who had lost their parents. I think much of the same feelings are there in many adoption cases. We reach out not only to meet others needs but also our own.