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Fundamental right to know: Judge Wade S. Weatherford, Jr., Seventh Judicial Circuit Court, SC, said in a ruling on an adoptee’s petition to gain access to adoption records: "Mankind is possessed of no greater urge than to try to understand the age-old question: ’Who am I?’ ’Why am I?’... Those emotions and anxieties that generate our thirst to know the past are not superficial and whimsical. They are real and they are ’good cause’ under the law of man and God." Judge Weatherford, Jr - Adoption Laws are exe
Confidentiality in Adoption
Confidentiality in adoption means that those who are separated DO NOT and CAN NOT know each other. In most states there are a minimum of seven ways people CAN and DO find and know each other without having an original birth certificate.,