| The Adoption Reform Movement has been active for over forty years, but the only real legislative victories have come in the last seven years at the hands of a web-based, grassroots adoption community. Explores the history of the Internet and its recent use in politics. Also examines the history of adoption in the United States and how it has changed from a policy based on informal openness, to a rigid closed system, and back to a more open institution. Includes discussion about sealed adoption records and details ways in which birth families and adoptees seek and find one another. Contends that the Internet has had an impact on adoption reform and adoption search and reunion, although it is unclear how the change will affect the future of adoption reform. |
