Reunion through Adoption Registries

An adoption registry is a formal mechanism that is used by both adoptees and birth families to find their biological parents and biological children respectively. Many adoptees as well as birth parents have used these invaluable resources to contact their parents and children respectively and have some have become re-united once again. These registries usually exist where full identities of the adopting family and the birth parents are not disclosed during an adoption. Where an adoption registry is run by a government agency, there are even the original documents that help to identify the adopting family as well as the biological family. These registries offer is called an adoption disclosure.

Where adoption disclosure is adopted, the adoptees are first required to be adults before they can be given the identifying information. State laws in the United States govern whether such information should be released to the interested party by the institution that has the records. In some states, the government adoption registry demands that both the birthparent and the adoptee first register before they can be given the identifying information. In other states, the adoptee is first expected to request the needed information and then the institution or organization will then contact the birth parent and request consent so that both parties can be re-united.

Though many states have registries that are operated by government agencies, there are also many private adoption registries that exist and that can be found on the internet. A privately-owned adoption registry is generally more successful than a government-run registry. This is because these privately-owned registries are managed by adoption community members who have been in the adoption area for many years. State-run registries usually suffer from a lack of publicity compared to privately-owned adoption registries. As a result, few people are aware of them.

In most cases, upon registering to an online adoption registry, the internal mail system will send you an email whenever someone responds to your entry. Some registries will also allow a person to search for their birth mothers or children by doing a birthday search. It is even possible to save a search and get a notification whenever someone posts an entry that matches your search. This saves a lot of time. An adoption registry is a great way to locate an adoptees biological parents and a birth parents child. It is an excellent way to re-unite families together after many years.