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Internet already allows search for birth certificates

In reference to Lorraine Ahearn's article, "Adoption records prickly debate" (March 14), let it be known to the North Carolina Family Research Council that even though it successfully opposed a past effort to allow adult adoptees access to their original birth certificates, it did not stop the countless successful searches and reunions that are occurring every day.

With volunteer search angels searching, and finding, and paid searchers still working, it's too late to try to stop the wheels of progress from turning on the Internet where information is just a click away.

Our current adoption laws operate in the dark ages. Some adoptive parents may feel intimidated if the adoptee expresses a desire to search, and the adoptee will feel guilty and sometimes delay searching until the parents are deceased.

If adoptive parents have earned the love and respect of their adopted children, they will not lose their relationship, love and loyalty.

A wise adage said it like this: If you love something, set it free. If it returns to you, it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.

Hazel Kaisinger
Greensboro

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