I committed these forgeries in vain as I tried to obtain my original birth certificate and medical history. Also, had I reached a relative, not my birth parents, I’d be outing their possible secret, or the person on the other end could panic and lie. On the new birth certificate, some states changed the city and county of the child’s birth to where the adoptive parents lived at the time so that no one but the parents could know the child was adopted. AdvertisementThe author's original (pre-adoption) birth certificate, which notes it is "not a certified copy of a birth record." And Massachusetts has deigned to supply my original birth certificate with my birth parents’ names.

Source: Huffington Post January 27, 2024 20:01 UTC