ased decisions to open birth records on. The 6th Circuit Court stated that the need to know ones medical background out weighs the wanted privacy of birth parents, if accurate information was given at adoption about the birth parents medical history this would not be as necessary (psy.ucsd.edu, 3). In fact most adoptees know nothing (K. Harrison, Interview) about the medical history of their birth parents. Most if not all adoptees are very concerned about the possibility of health problems attributed to genetics (K. Harrison, Interview).Records should be open for the simple reason that people need to know where they came from. The people keeping the records closed (the politicians) grew up knowing their genetic background, so they couldn't possibly understand what it's like to grow up wondering (K. Harrison, Interview). The fight for opening the adoption records is not unconditional. Kimberly Harrison, an adoptee, feels that yes I think the birth parents have a right to decline seeing the adoptee (K. Harrison, Interview) but also feels that any and all medical records and problems of both sides of the family (K. Harrison, Interview) should be included in the information disclosed. If the father is known should also be included along with basic information like height, hair color, anything that adoptee can read and relate too. There should also be a check of the circumstances surrounding the adoption, why they are giving up the child. That's something the child will always want to know. If you have siblings, so many adoptees search when they're 20 or 30 years old and then find out they were a twin or triplet, they deserve to know that all their lives (K. Harrison, Interview)....
