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The reason I am asking - I was just on another Washington State Search site where you can list the info you have and who you are looking for. I noticed a post from someone who was adopted at the Children's Home Society in WA (as I was), but a year before me (1970). What caught my attention is that her non-identifying information was similar to mine. This made me think is it possible the agency had bogus guidelines when giving this info to adoptive parents? You know, like wrapping it up and putting a prettier bow on it than it really was? Just curious if anyone found out a completely different story than the one they were originally given. Thanks.
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Basically, your suspicions are right in certain cases. Some agencies did use a template of information in some of the original paperwork and there are those out there who caution against believing the contents of non id. However that is rarely the case in later adoptions. Realize that the non id is culled from(or should be) several sources including hospital delivery record, adoption decree, adoption consent, and preliminary interviews with the birth mother as well as notes by the case worker. If you suspect your ID is the product of some cookie cutter template, then continue to research other non IDs from the same provider and if you collect enough similar cases, confront them with it. You may even have a decent lawsuit.
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The info my birthdaughter got from the agency had a lot of things in it that were not correct. Her family received updates for years on me. No one from the agency ever contacted me after the day I signed papers. I call the info give the family fortune info, enough things that could be true that it wasn't harmful. They also had a whole section on the bdad that did not come from either of us. I know this to be true because I happen to be married to the bdad. The info included in that that could have been harmful was that he wanted contact but I absolutely did not. I had always said I was open to contact but the adopted family or child needed to do the contacting. (this was mid-70's, very closed).
Anyway, read info with a grain of salt. Especially the stuff that could be agency biased.
D.
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