adoption records
Family origin files
Adoption records are the official documents created when a child is legally adopted, including birth certificates, court orders, and identifying information about biological parents.
In many jurisdictions, these records are sealed, accessible only to adoptees who petition the court or reach a certain age.
She spent years trying to unseal her adoption records.
The phrase often appears in discussions of adoptees' rights to know their origins.
- birth motherParent who delivered child
- court ordersBinding judicial directives
- personal historyAccount of someone's life
- confidentialityQuality of protecting secrets
- family secretsConcealed household truths
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- family recordsbirth certificates, birth certificate, family trees, death certificate, marriage license
- Family Mattersgenealogy, family tree, ancestry, family history, heirlooms
- official documentsbirth certificate, marriage certificate, death certificate, passport, driver's license
- recordsworld record, record, Guinness, documents, album
- adoptionadoptive parents, birth parents, adopted child, adoptive parent, birth parent
- family lawchild custody, child support, alimony, family court, divorce petitions
adoption recordspublic records
Officially filed, publicly accessible documents