(December 6, 2015 at 1:16 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote:(December 5, 2015 at 10:15 pm)Judi Lynn Wrote: Typically, when a person, or a couple adopts a child, they are legally assuming all of the rights and responsibilities that the natural born parents could not or would not take on. They are spending a lot of money for the opportunity to have a family. By all rights, they deserve to have their names listed on the birth certificate because they are, in the eyes of the law, the legal parents.
Biological lineage gets tossed out the window when a child gets adopted.
I still think you have a record of people's biological parents. Not saying adoptive parents shouldn't have a certificate of some sort but it's odd to give them a "birth" certificate when they're not the birth parent.
This is America. The land of loopholes.
These links explain the usual process but there may be variations between States.
https://adoption.com/birth-certificates-for-adoptees
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/certlic/birthdea...MERGED.pdf
https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/infoaccessap.pdf
