After getting so many emails and letters from so many adoptees over the decades who wish they had not been given up, not been adopted, it's rather...refreshing to learn that some of our readers are so very fine with the situation of growing up in a different family other than the one they were born to. (See comments at previous blog.) Also writing are mothers who feel their children were not negatively affected by being adopted, or saying they did not feel that damaged by relinquishing their children. Certainly all this helps explain why movement on opening sealed records has been so slow in so many states--what's the problem? Also adding to the apathy of opening sealed birth records to the adopted is that more and more of them from the last few decades have full access to, and knowledge of who their original mothers.
