But, finding them wouldn't be so difficult, did you know that? Right now, with the laws and "confidentiality" rules in place to protect my parents' rights I can get no further than my adoption agency telling me they didn't want their contact information given out to me. But there is another way. Locked away in the files and files of the Utah Vital Records is my birth certificate. My REAL birth certificate. The one I am holding in my hands right now is what the government wants me to think is the real one.
Issued weeks after my real birth, it has my adopted parents name as my real parents and the name my adopted parents gave me as my real name. But somewhere in Utah there lies my actual birth certificate, issued when I was born. It has the name my parents gave me when I was born and my birth parents' names. It is all right there, but I am not allowed to see it. My own birth certificate.
This is what Adoptee Rights Day is focusing on this year. We are demanding our rights to see our real birth certificates. They are ours and we should have the full rights like all Americans to see our own birth certificates. I could go on and on about this, but a member from an adoptee rights forum I am currently a participator in formulates it better. This is a comment regarding adoptive parents and their often selfish motives to make adoption all about themselves. This is has been made apparent from the soon-to-be-released movie, "Orphan" which had a little bit of a poorly-worded tagline and what this current member is replying to.
You see, this little line: "It must be hard to love an adoptive child as your own."has the self-absorbed adoptive community so lathered up that it is laughable. I find it so interesting (and plain disgusting) how these people are so concerned about one line in a movie but could care less that their adoptive children are treated as second-class citizens in this country.
Adoptees in 44 states in this country have our birth certificates permanently sealed from us upon our adoption. (The cry babies that are writing to you about your movie as the ones who get to have their names put on our (adoptees) "Amended" birth certificates listing them as our (adoptees) biological parents.) These falsified documents are what adoptees are forced to use as "legal" identification for the rest of their lives. Our original birth certificates containing our birth names and names of our biological parents are forever sealed from us in some dusty, vital records vault. Our heritages, and our true ethnicities are forever sealed from us. This is a violation of an adopted person's civil rights. Does anyone in the adoptive parent camp protest this? Nope. Why? Because it suits them.
It is time for true change to a system that hasn't updated itself since the 50s in some instances. It is time for adoptees to stop accepting a life that wasn't even their choice. It is time for us to have the same freedoms and stop being victims to our parents' own immaturity. I refuse to pay for the sins of my parents by having my own identity being stolen and hidden from me, among other things. I DEMAND MY REAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE NOW!
Please, join me and others like me on July 21st and demand that adoptees be given equal rights to know a part of ourselves that was stolen and locked away. We already have enough to deal with as children of adoption and foster care such as mental illness, physical disability and abandonment and behavioral issues. Please, help us gain some control in life where it was robbed from us by selfish adults. Demand to your local state government and to our national government that adoptees rights must be given.
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