Adoption registry

With the number of adoptions that occur throughout the world, there needed to be a place where people who were adopted could make contact with their birth parents, in a safe environment that was facilitated by professional in the Human Services field.  The Adoption Registry will provide all these benefits to the person that was adopted.

The Adoption Registry provides information to individuals to help them in their search for birth parents.  There are information and referral services that are offered for the adopted person to contact other adoption agencies that may have handled their adoption.  There are limited search services offered by the Adoption Registry that may cover only one State, or it might offer simple search services where the city of birth is thoroughly to provide information to the adopted person about the birth parent.

The Adoption Registry will go as far as to provide non-identifying background information on the birth parent.  This is necessary because the identities of the birth parent will not be revealed, especially if the adoption was sealed by the Courts to ensure the privacy of both parties or to hide a harmful history of neglect and abuse.

The specific information that can be provided by the Adoption Registry is the adoptees birth statistics and placement history.  This information is derived from case records and may be provided on adult adoptees and adoptive parents of minor adoptees.

The Adoption Registry is a good source of information for adoptees.  They can learn about their medical and social characteristics of their birth family member.  They can also learn about the health side of their family health histories.

Only certain circumstances and the facts surrounding those circumstances will be provided by the Adoption Registry.  The orginal copies of a court case will not be released by the Adoption Registry, but copies of the material contained inside the case file will be made by the Adoption Registry.

To clear some of the mystery from the adoptee past, the Adoption Registry can provide information about the events that lead to the adoptee being put up for adoption.  This is one question that seems to haunt some of the adoptees.  Any identifying information, including current location of a parent can not be provided by the Adoption Registry.

Should a birth family member contact the Adoption Registry in search of a sibling, no information will be provided to the birth family member.  There will a processing time for the Adoption Registry to be able to conduct a thorough search.  Adoptees are urged to be patient and wait at least 90 days to receive non-identifying information.