By Late 2006,23 States Provided Open Access to Adoption Records

question 68

Multiple Choice

By late 2006,23 states provided open access to adoption records.Some birth mothers feel that such laws

• A)are beneficial in that they will be able to contact children they were forced to give up.
• B)violate their right to privacy,especially when the birth resulted from a rape or a violent relationship.
• C)will help them work through past traumas that they have tried to forget.
• D)do not make much difference,as they were already in contact with their birth children.

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