Equality

This is my friend Kate with two of her four children. Her oldest two children were lost to adoption. Because of closed records in adoption, her children will not be able to request their own birth certificates when they turn 18, like ever other American citizen can. Adoptees are the only people in America who legally do not have the right to know who created them.

I'd like to know...what is the difference between Kate's oldest children and her youngest children? Why should her oldest children not have access to the same information her youngest children have? The same information every other adult in this country has a right to?

Over to the right of this post is a button to find out more information on the adoptee rights demonstration, coming up in July. Please take a moment to peek at that information, and lend your support in whatever way you can. If you have a few bucks to spare, they'd appreciate it; if you have five minutes to write a letter to your representatives, that would be awesome; and there are plenty of other things you can do to help as well.

Discrimination in this country, in all forms, is unacceptable. Please help send that message, and help my friend's children regain their rights as American citizens to know their roots, just like everyone else.