THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/BLUE RIDGE NOW.COMJune 10, 2008
Panel Approves Plan to Log Birth-Parent-Adoptee Searches
A House committee is backing a plan that would require adoption agencies to report how many birthparents and adoptees use a program to help the adults learn each other's identities.
The panel approved a plan Tuesday that would require the state to record how many adopted individuals and biological parents try to find their counterparts.
Lawmakers created a program last year that allows adoption agencies to act as confidential intermediaries between adoptees and biological parents. The individuals' names and medical information can be shared if both parties agree.
But members delayed approving or rejecting a plan to allow family members to use the intermediary service if either an adoptee or birthparent had died. The panel is scheduled to consider the plan Thursday.
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