This factsheet discusses laws that provide for access to both nonidentifying and identifying information from an adoption
record by adoptive parents and adult adopted persons.
Not exact matches
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Parenting Matters, Tough Starts: Family Matters and four
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Consent Form: legal document signed
by birth
parents that terminates their rights over their child and transfer them to the
adoptive parents Criminal Clearance: process used
by police or FBI to determine whether the waiting
parent has a criminal
record.
Usually, the reasons for sealing
records and carrying out closed adoptions is said to be to «protect» the adoptee and
adoptive parents from disruption
by the natural
parents and in turn, to allow natural
parents to make a new life.
The adopted person, birth
parents, and
adoptive parents must follow procedures established
by the State to obtain identifying confidential information from the adoption
records, but they may be able to obtain nonidentifying information from the agency that arranged the adoption.
Many States require
by law that criminal
record and child abuse
record clearances be conducted on all
adoptive and foster
parent applicants.