Adoptees nationwide may soon gain access to their original birth certificates
- Written by Andrea Ross, Lecturer in the University Writing Program, University of California, Davis
For adopted children, obtaining original birth certificates is a difficult process and includes searches in storage rooms such as this one in the Boston City Hall basement.Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)I was adopted in Colorado in the late 1960s. At the age of 20, I was stricken with a serious illness that necessitated...
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