Articles Book III - Pg 300-560 (Birthparents) - triadoption

"Natural parents who voluntorlly relinqulsh chlldren
should hove accoss to Inlormarlon on the status and
whereabouts ol their chlldran."
- Browndolo's brlof to tho Commlttoe on Record Dlsclosure
to Adoptoes, Ministry of Community end
Social Servicos. Provinco of Ontario, Conodo. Published
in FAMILY INVOLVEMENT, Vol. 9/Number 2,
1977.
FILES ARE A REVELATION
"Baing privy to what ha:; been written about ma, as
guaranteed under the Freedom of lntormatlon Act, has
proved to be revealing. in a latter from my adoption
worker to the worker at the Florence Crittenton Hestings
House In Brighton, Mess., the former admitted: "It was
touch and go for o while as to whether she would release
him and finally she decided to do so." Yet, In her oliiclal
records filed with the probate court, the adoption worker
steted flatly, "Lee hed no maternal feelings lor the clilld
and felt that keeping him would not be In tune with her
lllestyla." In enother letter to the Home, this same odoptlon
worker discussed the compl~tlon ot my finonclal
arrangements and concluded her letter thusly: "On the
lighter slde, the baby Is lovely and should be excellent
metoriel tor adoption."
- Lee Campbell, CUB President
LEE, 32, BECAME PREGNANT AT 17, DELIVERING A SON IN
DECEMBER, 1962. AND SURRENDERING SHORTLY AFTER HER
18th BIRTHDAY W O OR SO MONTHS LATER. LEE IS CUB
PRESIDENT.
"It seems strange but I was happy about being prognont. I
hod gone with tho birthfather since tho eighth grade ond wo hod
recently been rounitod after o short time of soporetion. Simply
put, I loved T, very much ond felt thot our child was on extension,
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