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Lydia Leftcoast
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Thu Oct-14-04 02:35 PM
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when Oregon proposed opening up its adoption records so that adoptees could find their blood relatives if and only if the birth parents consented, the most opposition came from older women. Some of the older women I talked to were so vehement in their opposition that the former unwed mothers wouldn't want to be "shamed" that I had to wonder whether they were talking about their own pasts.
The younger women (fifties and younger) couldn't figure out what the big deal was.
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