Do children have the right to know their biological parents?

I'd also like to adopt someday down the roads. I think it is the child's right to know their biological parents, however with many adoptions these days, they have rules and agreements depending on the birth parents' wishes. So sometimes it isnt possible and I think thats really sad. But if there was no problem with me disclosing all the information, I would love to share that with the child. They might not want to talk to the bio parents or maybe they do, but at least they have the information, and hopefully they would feel comfortable enough to ask me for help in locating them if that's what they wanted to do.

I believe that a person should have the right to know their biological parents, but you have to consider that the parents may not want to be known. It is a hard pill to swallow, but sometimes this is the case. My best friend was adopted at four weeks old. It is almost impossible to find her real parents, because her foster parents name is on the birth certificate. She is forty now and there is really nothing to go on. I think you have a right to know them, as long as you don't infringe on their right to remain anonymous.

I think every person have the right to know who is their biological parent.

Children should be given the right to know they have other parents out there and if they choose contact them when they are old enough. I know several who were adopted and they were glad to meet there biological parents but most only wanted to meet them once and not form a relationship with them and the others include them in there life and formed great freindships but there are things they will nto disscuss with them only the adopted parents.

It's an interesting question, and funny enough I've never thought about it, given the fact that both my sons (11, 12)were adopted at a very early age (and I mean REALLY early)by me and my wife. They know that we aren't their biological parents, and I expect some trouble during puberty, when all children start fantasizing that their family isn't really their 'real' family and that somewhere their 'real' parents and siblings await them to safe them from the misery and the parents they are stuck with. Again, those are fantasies common to all children, the difference being that adopted children have a base for believing that their 'real' folks are waiting for them somewhere out there. Do they have a right to meet them? I'd say certainly yes. If that thought would make me uncomfortable, I wouldn't have done a proper job in bringing them up.

I think adoption children actually have that right here, although not sure. Since recently though I do know that on sperm donors the records are being given free to the children. With that being the case it would be highly unlikely that it is different on adoption kids. But for both situations there I have a different opinion: On adoption I'd say yes, those parents were actually the ones who set the person onto the world, and many of them put their kid up for adoption not because they wouldn't want to raise it themselves but in order to try and give it a better future than they could offer. By sperm donors: I'd say no, those men just go to the sperm bank ditch their load for some bucks and definitely don't have any intention of getting a bond with a kid afterwards. Hell many even have more than 1 kid due to it. After the regulation got introduced it caused quite some worrying moments for some as they have done a great amount of sperm donations and might get hundreds of kids claiming to be their kids at some point in life which most will probably have no interest in. By carrier mothers: I'd not really know, carrying someone's kid for 9 months. You must make some sort of bond with it, even going through 9 months like that, it's not like the 3 minutes it takes for a guy to do his donation for another couple.

I think they should know their medical history, but they don't have the right if the parents don't want to be known. I think if this were made legal, there would be more abortions. Some parents don't want to have anything to do with knowing their bio children so we should respect that.

Definitely, at an age of maturity say 18 years old a child should be told who their biological parents are if it is known.

Absolutely they do! Each adoption is unique and I every family has to follow their hearts and hopefully everyone agrees on the out come!

I do think adopted children should be able to know their biological parents. There are some important questions that these children need answers to. Such as medical questions. I few years ago I adopted two boys. I made sure that when the time came that the boys would be able to contact their biological parents with any questions they might have. Its important to leave this door open for the children.

Sometimes, it's best for them not to know their biological parents to avoid complications. What you don't know won't hurt, right? But if the child learns that he has biological parents and desires to see or know them, by all means, they should be allowed - at a certain age. As long as he is old enough to understand and still desires to meet the parents and the possibility of that meeting is there, he should be allowed.

I wasn't adopted but I never knew my biological father. I found him through classmates.com and we exchanged email for a few years. Ironically, a year after I found him, my youngest child was born on his birthday! It's now 6 years later and we no longer communicate. It hurts worst knowing that he doesn't want anything to do with me than it did just not knowing at all.

I think that if it is possible a child should be able to atleast contact their biological parents so that they might be able to find out some information from them. There are some biological parents that don't want for their birth children to find them. Perhaps these types of parents could write a letter to the child explaining medical history and how the came to be. I think that you have to respect both the child and the biological parents wants.

I think that once they are of age, that it is their right to be able to pursue that information. I knew my parents but if I had not, I would have wanted to. I don't think the adoptive parents should take it as a threat or insult.

Although I am adopted, as an infant, I do not believe any child should feel entitled automatically to information about their biological parents. Just look at it from that side of the fence. A woman gives her child up for adoption - for whatever reason. Years later, this child is handed her personal information to seek her at will. What if she does not want to be found by that child - again, for whatever reason. I would view that as an invasion of privacy. The laws governing release, or the lack thereof, of the information of an adopted child's biological parents are there for a reason - to shield all parties involved in this process - the child, the biological and adoptive parents. Obviously adopted children and parents have and do find each other. But it starts with a desire on someone's part to look. It doesn't mean that both sides equally desire this. I don't think the child has a *right* to that information if the parent doesn't want to give that information.

Yes, I think that at the appropriate age the child should be able to have the opportunity to know that they are adopted and that they have parents out there and that they should be able to look for them if they want to. My daughter is adopted by my husband but she does know her biological dad and she has had contact with him. I think that it is important to let them know that due to health issues,etc.

An adopted child has the right to know his biological parents. I have an adopted child and he knows very that he is adopted at the age of 3 years old. He was told of it when he was old enought to understand his situation. If we keep the truth of adoption to children they will resent it later on.

My parents adopted me when I was 10 days old. Ever since I could understand to listen, speak and learn they began telling me all the time and explaining that I was adopted and what this meant was that I had another mother out there in the world that could not take care of me so she had no other choice to give me up for adoption. It was nice to know the truth but at the same time, it was like a piece of the puzzle that was missing or picking up a novel book and not reading the first chapter.. if that makes sense. I do think we as adopted children have the right to know yes. It's only up to us if we want to go search for our biological families also and that's the risk that a person who adopts has to be prepared for when the time comes. I met my biological mother not more than 8 years ago and my mother that brought me up actually encouraged me to do that. To this day and always I will think of the mom that brought me up.. my real mother.

Personally I feel it should be up to the biological parents whether or not they want to be found. I know that sometimes, an adopted child is curious about why their real mom and dad gave them up and then they go searching and find their bio parents and their reunions aren't exactly all sunshine and roses. The bio mother could have been raped or traumatized or simply didn't want to raise a child, so she gave it up. The trauma of an adopted child being rejected by his or her birth parents can be devistating for a child. The trauma of a child coming back into your life after you adopted it out can be traumatic as well. Closed adoptions or private adoptions are that way for a reason. The birth mother doesn't want to be found. Period.

Yes, as a parent I feel that children should have the right to know their biological parent(s). There are many reasons why a child should know, and each incident should be handeled on a case-by-case basis. I know a situation where a child was told by another family relative, without the parents permission to do so, and the child confronted her parents, who were divorced, about it. The parents lied and told the child that what she was told by the relative was not true. The child had doubts and while in her twenties was told the truth by her mother. The dad was supposed to be involved with telling her but opted out of doing so. While in her thirties she tried to contact her biological parent but was told by his brother that he had passed away. She was upset but knew that there was nothing that she could do about it. Her mother felt badly that she did not tell her sooner, but had no idea that the biological father had been ill as she never had any contact with him during or after she concieved her daughter. The man she had called her dad and thought was her father, after remarrying and starting a new family didn't treat her the same and she felt it -- more times than not. I'm sure that she is feeling a little "Abandoned and Deceived" by both, her biological father and her dad. So as you can see by example, there is cause and affect in most if not all case situations. GlassWindow