Are biological parents entitled to anything regarding their children once placing them through adoption?

JoHn S.

They deserve everything that was agreed to before the adoption was final, regardless if it's legally binding or not.

Mei-Ling

Entitled? No.

But they should be spoken of with respect. Many of them did not have a 'choice' - or at least a choice by reasonable standards, which does not indicate a life or death situation.

And they deserve the decency of knowing what happened to their child.

magic pointe shoes

Yes, to be spoken about with dignity.

Cam

They deserve the opportunity to have a relationship with their child after the adoption takes place.

Pisces Princess

On the norm once the biological parents give up there child via adoption, they no longer have rights or any entitlements to that child. There's usually no visitation granted unless the adoptive family agrees to it. It's as if that child is no longer part of your life or family, your child is now with another family that has all rights and entitlement to your child as if born into the new family even though he or she was not. You give up everything when you place your child up for adoption.

Heather B

Yes. Respect.

kelsey

No, unless there was something, like visitation, stipulated in the adoption paperwork.

Carol c

I was promised that my son would be given my contact information when he was of age. Not only was that not true, both my son and I when we wished to find each other, were told the records were sealed.

First parents are entitled to the dignity and respect that they were assured would be theirs if they would just sign the paperwork. That means honoring the words spoken to them about why it was in their child's best interest to have their mother surrender her parental rights - not using bait & switch methods once the adoption is finalized.

kateiskate

If they were promised an open adoption I'd say ethically they are entitled to that even if it is not legally binding.

And of course they are entitled to respect, just as you should respect any other parents.

Sly

Certainly biological parents are entitled to things after placing a child for adoption. They are entitled to the respect and dignity that any human being is accorded, as well as the addition of honor as the woman who bore the child.

Further, as citizens of the United States of America, they are guaranteed by the Constitution that they have certain unalienable rights. These include the privacy protection from other that every citizen is guaranteed...not specifically FROM the children that they bore but certainly from other intrusive outside parties. They have the right to control their own medical history and the protections of that which are a part of the law...HIPAA guarantees it. If someone desires the medical history they will need to get it verbally from the person who lived it, not from a Standardized Form mandated by the State.

Further, they deserve a copy of every single piece of paper with their name or signature on them. That is a right that has been denied the mothers, who were legally the mothers of their children at the time and remained so until their Surrenders were accepted by a judge of the land, not upon her signature as has been stated. We should have been given a copy of the Surrender, a copy of our child's OBC, a copy of our and their medical information. Our medical history should never have been stolen and awarded to another woman in the form of the Amended Birth Certificate. In any other arena that would have been fraud and theft. Not so with adoption.

Lastly, we are entitled to define ourselves, speak our own truth without being called liars, whiners, bitter or otherwise, and we deserve and demand the right to speak for ourselves. We are the experts of our own experience and don't need self-stated experts to presume to speak on our behalf. Shut up already....We can do it ourselves!!!

BraxOwl

No. Once the biological parents sign away their rights, they have no rights or responsibilities for/to the child (legally speaking).

Birthers are NOT mothers

Nope, not so much...they should be just a fleeting memory in the new families lives.

Enter Your Message or Comment

User Name:
User Email:
Post a comment: