On Mon 16-Sep-1996 10:45a, Rob Buckman said to James Kelly:
RB> Hello James!
RB> Replying to a message of James Kelly to All:
RB>  JK> court records.  Plaintiffs hoping to overturn the Tennessee statute
RB>  JK> were represented by the Washington D.C. based American Center for 
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RB>  JK> and Justice.  The law also allows birth parents and birth siblings 
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RB>  JK> adopted adults to request information about the adoptee.
RB> What a shame.  My wife and I were only a few weeks completing the
RB> paperwork for a Tennessee-based adoption agency.  We will now look
RB> elsewhere since we, the parents, do not want the government or a
RB> whiner/childish "right-to-know" attitude on the part of adoptees deciding
RB> our actions.
RB> That's one less child adopted in the State of Tennessee.
RB> Rob
  I would like to jump in and put my two cents in.. First of all it does not 
sound like you are ready to adopt a child in the first place..  It is a 
natural stage in an adopted childs life to want to know who their natural 
parents are, and why they had to be put up for adoptiong..  What are you 
going to tell them, that you don't want to hear them "Whine" or that they are 
acting childish, that is the last thing they need to hear..
  What is wrong with ANY state allowing someone who was adopted look up their 
natural parent/s when they become a legal adult, unless the natural parents 
do not want to be contacted?  I think this should have been enacted A LONG 
time ago.  Rob, you will never know what it is like to be adopted and wonder 
what you mother looks like, or to have a deep love and understanding for 
someone you have never met but realize the sacrifice that they had to make to 
ensure that you where taken care of, I DO!!  I met my natural mother 3 and 
half years ago, and that is something NOBODY can take away from me..
It's close minded, power hungry, jelouse people like you who should never 
have children in the first place!!
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