I Need Some Legal Advice

I Need Some Legal Advice I am writing here today because I am in the process of gathering information because I am needing some legal advice. If this is not the place to disclose this information, then please, by all means, direct me to the appropriate place. In 1983 I was officially adopted in Washington State. Since then, now, at the age of 22, I am wanting to sue the State of Washington because I feel that they haven't done their job. I believe I have a wrongful adoption case, but am unsure about what steps I need to take in order to 1: Gather information and 2: Prove it. In 1998, I found my biological parents, and have been able to begin a relationship with my biological father. Throughout our relationship, it came to my attention that his lawyer told him that he would get me back after he served his prison term. (This is a long story, but he did it for love, but he is not the guilty party....it was my biological mother who did the deed). Anyway, his lawyer said that he would get me back after he served his term....but, I was adopted out before he finished his term. He (my biological father) was never given papers to terminate his parental rights. I am not sure if this actually correct or not. Through the grapevine, I have been told (by my foster parents and adoptive parents - who heard it from my foster parents), that the Washington State Attorney General signed the papers in my biological father's stead..... QUESTION 1: Where or to whom would I turn in order to obtain this record....or any records surrounding this issue? Where would I even begin to find out the legality of my adoption? I would also like to state that I was living in a world where there was abuse. My adoptive parents are not the richest people in the world. Well, they struggle to make ends meet....and I wouldn't trade them in for anything in the world....but...when they adopted me, back in 1983...they thought I was a normal, happy, healthy child from a loving home who's parents just couldn't care for me, which is why I was being placed for adoption. They did not know I was abused. I wrote an e-mail to someone who sent me to this website...[url]http://www.calib.com/naic/pubs/h_wrong.htm[/url] and in the first paragraph, it states, "The phrase "wrongful adoption" is a legal term that refers to the failure on the part of an agency or a worker to disclose known information, or information that should be known, about a child to the prospective adoptive parents." There was no information disclosed to my adoptive parents....none whatsoever that should have been. Such as .... 1: I had a brother who was murdered at the hands of my biological mother. 2: I had been physically and emotionally and mentally abused for my whole life (at that time it was about 2 years). 3: That I had been to a foster home, then given back to my parents, then to the same foster home, then back to my parents, then back to my foster home, then back to my parents...etc.....until finally at 1 year....I was permanently taken from my biological parents....and because custody of the State of Washington..... UGH! Imagine, if you will, taking a young child...shuffling her back and forth, back and forth, back and forth......Do you believe she would be normal given all that she has gone through? It is a fact that between ages 0 - 2 years, is when a child learns to bond and trust and all those wonderful things....but, at 1 year....I was placed in foster care...and was able to bond and integrate with my foster family as best as anyone could hope for.....only to be ripped away from them at 2 years, (4 or 7) months....and given to new people.....I believe that the State of Washington should have provided myself, my future siblings, and my adoptive family some sort of mental health benefits to ensure a proper integration. You see, I never bonded with my parents (my adoptive parents that is). To this day, I have not bonded with them. They were poor, but loving, but were unable to provide (nor did they know that I could benefit from) mental health services. QUESTION 2: Am I wrong in my thinking that the State of Washington ought to have provided counseling at the very least, given the fact that they knew my background and history? To allow me, at a very young age, the opportunity to have a semi-normal existance with a new family? I believe that because I did not get the help I needed as a child....at the beginning of my adoption....I have suffered. My family has suffered. My siblings have suffered. To this day, I have severe depression. I have many many many years of anger. I never had a relationship with my adoptive parents and for many years I hated them....I felt that they treated me different...but it was because I didn't bond with them. Does any of this make sense? I'm not sure where I'm going with this, or even where to go from here. I feel that I have been screwed by the State of Washington and want them to make it right..... Can someone give me advice? Sincerely, MissieMouse Adopted since 1983 (age 2)