Keep Family Secrets Private

Illinois' adoption registry should remain voluntary, despite Rep. Sara Feigenholtz' crusade to open family secrets . . . admittedly, a controversial position on a controversial topic that is likely to face a House floor vote before May 23.

From Illinois Family Institute's website . . .

Forced open adoption records is not the panacea. Such a drastic new policy is more likely to create more biological and psychological distress than what it relieves. If the moral definition of privacy remains as cloudy as it currently is, only technological advancements will finally determine what family secrets must be revealed.

Adoptive parents, at the very least, should have the circumstances surrounding their child's records be allowed to be kept as private as those circumstances surrounding the premeditated death of an unborn innocent.

Link: Illinois Family Institute.

Also see Opening the Adoption Pandora's Box