Adoption
...a division of Social Services in a different county. The adoption agency placed the child in a foster home. There she was finally given a name, Julie. Julie stayed there for 2 months. In two months she was adopted into a loving home where she spent the rest of her childhood. When she turn 18 years old she went to the courthouse to find out who her biological mother was but, to her dismay she was only asked to sign a consent form and told that they would send her the information she requested. Was this fair? What was the law? This young adult had to wait 18 years to have to wait a couple of more months to get a letter tell her that she could only receive non-identifying information. The adoption process in the state of Michigan is a very unfair process to the adoptive child.
What is adoption? Adoption is where a birth parent or parents give a child or children to another permanently. Parents can also terminate his or her own rights. Children can be adopted for varies reasons like parents rights are lost or terminated by the courts from neglect or abuse, parents not being able to care for there children financially or emotionally, or parents just not wanting their child. In Michigan the adoption can be open or closed. Open adoptions are when biological parents and children have some type of contact and know each other or maybe have visits with each other. According to Wikipeda, Closed adoptions are when the biological parents have no contact with each other and the record of the natural (birth parents) is kept sealed(1).
In 1980, in Michigan passed a law that all parents that give their children up for adoption must have a signed consent form in their file. The consent form gives permission to the probate court, Family Independence Agency and the adoption agency to give the child, once he has turn 18 years of age, the identifying...
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