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Adoptees in Search - Colorado's Triad Connection (established in
1975) is an all-volunteer community made up of adoptees, parents by
birth and adoption, spouses, friends, counselors, and adoption
professionals. We are united around the following principles:
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Adults raised in families created through adoption,
surrogacy, or donor insemination have the same right to obtain
their original birth records and personal histories as those
raised in their biological families, or families restructured
legally by divorce or death.
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Adults touched by adoption, surrogacy, or donor insemination
have the same right to make decisions whether or not to
associate freely, as any other American citizens,
without government intervention or obstruction.
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Relinquishment/surrender and adoption are related but
different events in our lives, and have lifelong impact on
everyone touched by these events.
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Ethical adoption and formation of families must place
first priority upon the best interests of the child, not just as
a minor, but also in view of choices that will impact the
well-being of the child once they become an adult.
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Each person's unique story had tremendous power to promote
identity, relationship, and healing.
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Confidentiality from public curiosity in adoption,
surrogacy, and donor insemination is appropriate protection of
personal privacy. Secrecy and anonymity among the parties
directly involved is unethical, unhealthy, potentially damaging
and dangerous, and breeds corruption, greed, adversarial
relationships and dehumanization of infants, children and
families.
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"I was born to a woman I never
knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my
background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I
meet someone now, I treat them with respect. For, after all, they could be
my people."
- James Michener
"In all
of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are
and where we come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a
hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is a vacuum
and emptiness and a most disquieting loneliness"
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Alex Haley
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...simply to give children away, or to take children when there is no emergency,
produces great guilt. Adoption is justified when there's no one to take
the children...
[but] when children are adopted capriciously, and taken away from their parents
and grandparents, it is an injustice."
- Bert Hellinger
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