Stories in the News

 BREAKING NEWS STORIES

Richard Hill - DNA Testing is revolutionizing the search for family roots, ethnic ancestry and genetic health information 02-21-2013

Overseas Adoption Racket: How children are sneaked out by the thousands 02-22-2013

Irish Leader Enda Kenny promises apoology to survivors of Magdalene Laundries 02-14-2013

Court: Father had Right to Stop Adoption 02-08-2013

Albert Albee Playwrigt on Adoption 01-27-2013

Push On to Open Up Old Birth Certificates Records 01-27-2013

I'm Still Waiting for the Stigma of Adoption To Go Away  01-25-2013

Illegally adopted baby could be first repatriated Korean child  01-24-2013

Part 1 - Anticipation of a meeting 20 years in the making 01-24-2013

[Opinion] Adoption must be legal, and serve the interests of children 01-23-2013

Changes to adoption records may come thanks to the legislature 01-13-2013

Bay Area Mother Reunited with Son after 63 Years 11-19-2012

 

Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute Releases New Report - 10/23/2011

New Openness for Donor Kids about their biology - Part Two (NPR Radio) 9-18-2011

New Openness for Donor Kids about their biology - Part One (NPR Radio) 9-17-2011 
 

Older Stories kept for Information

 
Donaldson Institute releases report supporting the adoptee's right to the Original Birth Certificate — FOR THE RECORDS: RESTORING A RIGHT TO ADULT ADOPTEES, released this month for National Adoption Awareness Month, represents the most comprehensive examination to date of one of the most controversial, emotional issues in the modern adoption world: whether adopted people, once they become adults, should have access to their original birth information. This report suggests that all states change their laws so that the answer is "yes". To read the report, please visit: www.adoptioninstitute.org

The Guttmacher report on abortion statistics lists Delaware as one of the top five states in the country in per-capita abortion rates. While that statistic may be accurate, the Delaware paper, The News Journal, reported on January 22, 2008 that the per-capita abortion rate in Delaware dropped from 31.3 per 1,000 women in 2000 to 28.8 in 2005. Delaware’s law allowing adoptee access to the original birth certificate took effect in January 1999.

Carolyn Hoard, AAC Representative-Delaware