WBT reported yesterday that the N.C. House Judiciary Committee agreed to make adoptee-birthparent access easier. You can read about it here.
The decision to leave the past in the past or to seek out origins is, of course, a personal one, and the answer must depend on the person who is asking the question.
We wonder, though, about the large group of children who are being adopted from abroad by middle and upper-class thirty-somethings. We certainly don’t disparage the effort. In fact, we admire anyone willing to make the committment of time, money, love, and effort an international adoption takes. However, we cannot help but wonder if any of those children will ever have access to their pasts, given the state of foreign bureaucracies, should they choose to pursue them.
Consider this or anything else on today’s open line.