Reply #34: Adoptive rights are not a big issue on this board [View All]

[fed_up_mother]

As an adoptive mother and member of the adoption community, I'm well aware of the desire of many children to have a real "certificate of birth" compared to a fake one. Imo, it should be against the law to change the history of another person, and when you change something as fundamental as a birth certificate, you are rewriting the history of another person. Yes, that is what it is. Their history.

In my children's case, we have the original birth certificates as well as the new birth certificates, but only because that is what the law requires. I would just as well ALL kids have certificates of birth with their bio parents' names, and then another document stating who the legal parents are.