How many OBC's are ordered after a state restores adoptee rights?

May 31, 2014 - Fourteen Year Anniversary Report ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- Total records ordered since implementation: 11,838 Total records issued since implementation: 11,224 Total Contact Preference Forms submitted by birth parents: 675 Number asking for contact with adoptee: 553 Number asking for contact through an intermediary: 36 Number asking for no contact: 86

Average Annual Record Orders The following table summarizes the average number of new orders per month for preadoption birth records received by the Center for Health Statistics annually. Year​ ​Average New Orders Per Month 2001 293.4 2002 74.2 2003 61.4 2004 46.8 2005 38.8 2006 39.2 2007 34.2 2008 35.3 2009 33.3 2010 32.8 2011 20.1 2012 28.7 2013 21.7 ​2014 ​24.3

Since the enactment of PA 96-0895 in May 2010, the Illinois Department of Public Health has issued the following non-certified original birth records to adopted persons or their surviving relatives: Original birth records issued as filed 12,011 Original birth records issued with identifying information removed 64 Original birth records not located / No record statements issued 223 The same law provided for a birth parent preference packet to be completed allowing birth parents to select their preferences. The following are updated statistics: Birth parents who agreed to release the complete original birth record 315 Birth parents who requested identifying information be removed before release 470 Birth parents who filed medical questionnaires to be released 601

WHERE ARE WE NOW? Adoptees since the Adult Adoption Information Act 1985 ■22,927 adult adoptees have applied for identifying birth information by Dec. 1996 ■The majority of adult adoptees in stranger adoptions have now asked for and received their birth information ■Most have found the search and reunion a positive therapeutic journey ■Support groups have helped in working through joys and sorrows, as adoptees integrate the new knowledge and experience into their self-identity. Knowing the whole story increases the sense of wholeness and belonging. Birth parents since 1985 ■6,163 birth parents have applied for identifying information on their now adult adoptee by December 1996 ■The formation of support groups has helped them work through grief, anger and joys ■Birth fathers are now showing increasing interest in obtaining information and reunion Adoptive parents The 1985 submissions on the Adult Adoption Information Bill indicated adoptive parents were split, half in favour and half against. That has changed. Most now support the move. The significant differences between biological and adoptive parenthood are increasingly acknowledged. Likewise the need for most adoptees to search their origins. Most have found that reunion has strengthened the relationship between adoptees and adoptive parents. There has been a marked swing to openness, and open adoption. Vetoes The number of active vetoes placed by birth parents reached a peak of 3,350 but fell to 993 by the end of 1996. Vetoes placed by adoptees reached a peak in 1,240 but fell to 357. The need for vetoes has greatly receded. Reunions With over 20,000 reunions the story of adoption is now pouring out and the picture is clearer. Most searching adoptees want to know who their birth parents are and want a reunion. Reunions are not an end in themselves. They are the beginning of a new phase of completing the adoption circle. Some reunions just exchange information others form on-going relationships. Research indicates ■There is little change in existing relationships between the adoptee and adoptive parents. In most cases the quality of the relationship improved. Adoptive and birth parents need not be in a conflict, it is unique opportunity for both ■Adopted people can successfully integrate two or more families into their lives. Finding birth relatives does not mean they relinquish their adoptive ones ■Regardless of what they learn, most adopted people dont regret searching

Wow, thanks for posting this. I'm an amom trying to get my lawyer to give me a copy of my son's OBC before his finalization (which is MONDAY) - his birthmom doesn't even have one (nor care) but I care, in case my son ever wants it. (This is Louisiana..)I'm hopeful that the closed state might open then at some point and he'll (or I'll) be able to get him a copy if I can't make this happen in the next 72 hours :\