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Adoption reunion registry - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Acceptance, Acculturation, Affiliation, Appropriation, Assimilation, Assumption, Circumcision, Colonization, Conquest, Conversion, Copying, Derivation, Enslavement, Imitation, Indent, Infringement |
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An adoption reunion registry is a formal mechanism through which adoptees and their birth families can attempt a reunion.
Generally, such registries exist only in countries which practise closed adoption, i.e. adoption in which the full identities of the birth parents and the adopting family are not disclosed.
Though many such institutions are operated by government agencies, many private and amateur registries do exist, and can be found on the Web.
Some reunion registries run by governmental agencies have access to the original documents identifying a birth family or adopting family. Though such an institution cannot release this identifying information to the interested party, it will contact the other party and request consent for a reunion.
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