Critical Analysis of the Current Policy

The following posts will be looking at several aspects of the current Access to Adoption Records Act ( AARA) in an attempt to critically analyze the effectiveness of the Act in addressing the needs and rights of those individuals involved in adoption disclosure, namely the adoptee, the birth parent(s) and the adoptive parents. We will be looking at such things as the disclosure veto, the provision or lack thereof of counselling and mediation, access to medical records, age of consent, the search process, contact preferences, and the non-identifying information that is provided under the act when a disclosure veto has been registered.

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