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The author of "The Right to Know Who You Are", Keith C. Griffith, was instrumental in opening adoption records in his home country of New Zealand in 1990.

This book contains details of how the laws were opened in New Zealand, and helpful information for activists who want to try to open the records elsewhere.

The book also addresses issues that adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents commonly have; it tries to break the myths that birth parents and adoptees were promised or wanted secrecy and confidentiality from each other; and it goes into detail on how adoptees are harmed by sealed records, and tries to explain the myriad of reasons that adoptees search and want to know who we are.

Also included is a list of geographical locations, and what level of access to informations adoptees are allowed. Shockingly, parts of Canada and the United States are far behind the rest of the world in restoring identity rights to adoptees.

As a long-time activist for the restoration of human rights for adoptees and birth parents, I have gotten a great deal of help from this book, and from Keith as well. This has been an excellent starting point for me in understanding some of the very many reasons there are why birth and adoption records should be open to the adoptee, and how to bring about real change in the laws.

The right to know who you are is a basic human right. It is something which is covered in sections 7 through 10 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which states that children have the right to know and be cared for their birth families, and that where separated through an act of the government (such as legal adoption) children and birth families have the right to reconnect with each other, and the government has a responsibility to help.

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The author of "The Right to Know Who You Are", Keith C. Griffith, was instrumental in opening adoption records in his home country of New Zealand in 1990.

This book contains details of how the laws were opened in New Zealand, and helpful information for activists who want to try to open the records elsewhere.

The book also addresses issues that adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents commonly have; it tries to break the myths that birth parents and adoptees were promised or wanted secrecy and confidentiality from each other; and it goes into detail on how adoptees are harmed by sealed records, and tries to explain the myriad of reasons that adoptees search and want to know who we are.

Also included is a list of geographical locations, and what level of access to informations adoptees are allowed. Shockingly, parts of Canada and the United States are far behind the rest of the world in restoring identity rights to adoptees.

As a long-time activist for the restoration of human rights for adoptees and birth parents, I have gotten a great deal of help from this book, and from Keith as well. This has been an excellent starting point for me in understanding some of the very many reasons there are why birth and adoption records should be open to the adoptee, and how to bring about real change in the laws.

The right to know who you are is a basic human right. It is something which is covered in sections 7 through 10 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which states that children have the right to know and be cared for their birth families, and that where separated through an act of the government (such as legal adoption) children and birth families have the right to reconnect with each other, and the government has a responsibility to help.

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The author of "The Right to Know Who You Are", Keith C. Griffith, was instrumental in opening adoption records in his home country of New Zealand in 1990.

This book contains details of how the laws were opened in New Zealand, and helpful information for activists who want to try to open the records elsewhere.

The book also addresses issues that adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents commonly have; it tries to break the myths that birth parents and adoptees were promised or wanted secrecy and confidentiality from each other; and it goes into detail on how adoptees are harmed by sealed records, and tries to explain the myriad of reasons that adoptees search and want to know who we are.

Also included is a list of geographical locations, and what level of access to informations adoptees are allowed. Shockingly, parts of Canada and the United States are far behind the rest of the world in restoring identity rights to adoptees.

As a long-time activist for the restoration of human rights for adoptees and birth parents, I have gotten a great deal of help from this book, and from Keith as well. This has been an excellent starting point for me in understanding some of the very many reasons there are why birth and adoption records should be open to the adoptee, and how to bring about real change in the laws.

The right to know who you are is a basic human right. It is something which is covered in sections 7 through 10 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which states that children have the right to know and be cared for their birth families, and that where separated through an act of the government (such as legal adoption) children and birth families have the right to reconnect with each other, and the government has a responsibility to help.

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The author of "The Right to Know Who You Are", Keith C. Griffith, was instrumental in opening adoption records in his home country of New Zealand in 1990.

This book contains details of how the laws were opened in New Zealand, and helpful information for activists who want to try to open the records elsewhere.

The book also addresses issues that adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents commonly have; it tries to break the myths that birth parents and adoptees were promised or wanted secrecy and confidentiality from each other; and it goes into detail on how adoptees are harmed by sealed records, and tries to explain the myriad of reasons that adoptees search and want to know who we are.

Also included is a list of geographical locations, and what level of access to informations adoptees are allowed. Shockingly, parts of Canada and the United States are far behind the rest of the world in restoring identity rights to adoptees.

As a long-time activist for the restoration of human rights for adoptees and birth parents, I have gotten a great deal of help from this book, and from Keith as well. This has been an excellent starting point for me in understanding some of the very many reasons there are why birth and adoption records should be open to the adoptee, and how to bring about real change in the laws.

The right to know who you are is a basic human right. It is something which is covered in sections 7 through 10 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which states that children have the right to know and be cared for their birth families, and that where separated through an act of the government (such as legal adoption) children and birth families have the right to reconnect with each other, and the government has a responsibility to help.