No Confidentiality Promised For Birthmothers

"I was never promised or offered confidentiality, nor did I desire it."

"it would be terrible to think that when the time comes, my children couldn't find me because of legal red-tape."

"surrendered daughter Rochester, NY 1967"

"I believe every living being should know where they come from. They have that right, but that right was taken away from them. I am a birthmother who was forced and threatened harm to myself and my unborn child and her father. By my crazy person who calls "

"Author, "shedding light on...The Dark Side of Adoption". Surrenderd in NY and was never promised confidentiality, nor would I want it."

"If I had been counseled properly and not lied to by the social workers, the adoption agency, the courts, and whoever else was involved in the surrender of my son, I would have kept him with me and his birthfather."

"I was lucky to find one of the girls that I gave up for adopition some 26 years ago. It has been hard to find out the things that happened to them growing ing with out me or being abale to find me"

"My child was born male at Open Door in Utica New york"

"There were many lies told to me and information witheld that would have changed my life."

"My daughteer was born on 9/8/1986 @ Phelps Memorial Hosp."

"BIRTHMOTHERS NEVER FORGET!!!"

"I support this petition"

"I support this petition"

"Confidentiality is a word I never heard spoken nor saw on any papers. This is/was an affront to all of us who were forced to surrender our children. It's on the top of the list of horrific lies that has alienated and destroyed the lives of so many people"

"I support this petition"

"I want my son's original birth certificate. As a mother, I am entitled to it and so is my son."

"i am a Mother searching for her daughter she was born on May13/1954 in Elmira New York her birth name was Eva Ellen Clark i can,t find out what her name is now"

"As a reunited birthmother with all three children,, I can only ofer support. Open Records... Let our lost children have the one most Basic Right... Who they are!"

"Birthmother and Adoptee. No confidentiality was ever promised to me or any birthmother I know. The concept is fiction held tenously in place by the powerful few. Open records should be the right for all adoptees in every state."

"I support this petition"

"I placed my son up 32 years ago-it was in a time when closed adoptions were the "norm". I am currently in reunion with my son due to the fact that I placed his birth info on a search site. When he was placed, I was told that there was a slim to no chance "

"I was actually promised the opposite ."

"I support this petition"

"I support this petition"