Tag: Janine M. Baer
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Growing in the Dark: Adoption Secrecy and Its Consequences
by Janine M. Baer
Generations of adults who were adopted as children have been kept in the dark about their original identities. The law sealing birth records forever, even to the adopted person, passed in 1935 in California, sweeping adoption´s emotional complexities under the rug and making it possible to…