Monday, February 06, 2012
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Denver to Host AAC Conference
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Colorado Records Access Forms

The American Adoption Congress has chosen Denver to host its 33rd annual conference April 25-29.   The theme is Mile High Expectations: Adoption in 2012.  Registration opens January 5.  

  In his song "Everything to Me," adoptee and platinum selling recording artist Mark Schultz honors his adoptive parents and sings touching lyrics to his unknown first mother. He reassures her that she made the right choice with the words "when you gave me up, you gave everything to me." Would you agree -- or are there more nuanced life issues involved?

A 2009 Court of Appeals ruling has granted unrestricted access to original birth certificates and adoption records for Coloradans whose adoptions were finalized between July 1, 1951 and June 30, 1967. The state has responded by  creating two new forms.  See our FAQs section for a more detailed discussion.    

Welcome to Adoptees in Search

Adoptees in Search - Colorado's Triad Connection (AIS-CTC) was established in 1975. We are an all-volunteer community made up of adoptees, parents by birth and adoption, supportive family members and friends, counselors, and adoption professionals. 

Our Mission is to bring truth, education and healing to those impacted by relinquishment and adoption.


We are united around the following principles:



Read more: Welcome to Adoptees in Search

 

For the Records II

Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute Releases Follow-up Study 
  
This publication, a follow up study to the Institute's 2007 white paper, represents the most comprehensive examination to date of one of the most controversial, emotional issues in the modern adoption world: whether adopted people, once they become adults, should have access to their original birth certificates.   

 

Read more: For the Records II

 

New Books




As the only mother she had ever known was dying of cancer, 43 year-old Susan Bennett learned through a DNA test what she had long suspected: that she was adopted. 

Read more: New Books

   

Featured Links

Early Birth Forges Bond Between Adoptive Parents and Mother
Illinois Releases More Original Birth Certificates
Illinois Releases More Original Birth Certificates
BBC: 300,000 Spanish Babies Stolen
The Global Orphan Crisis
Open Secret (2011)
Open Secret (2011)
Rhode Island Victory!
Rhode Island Victory!
Father and Child Reunions
EBD, Zara and DMC Team up at NYC Hard Rock Cafe Adoptee Rights Event
EBD, Zara  and DMC Team up at NYC Hard Rock Cafe Adoptee Rights Event
ATTENTION MOMS who Support OBC Access: Please Sign this Petition
CO Court of Appeals Upholds Birthparent Rights
Top 10 Ways to Enjoy Sealed Adoption Records
Top 10 Ways to Enjoy Sealed Adoption Records

Upcoming Events

Wed Feb 08 @07:00pm - 08:30pm
Small Group Support
Tue Feb 28 @07:30pm - 09:00pm
To Love and Be Loved

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"[This] country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it..."  - Abraham Lincoln, Inaugural Address (1861)

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"Equal access to birth identity is like the right to vote. Some choose to exercise it, some don't -- and the outcome may or may not be what you hoped for -- but no one should be barred from the right to know the names of their blood kin."     - Rich Uhrlaub, Colorado adoptee

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"I wouldn't give a puppy to someone I didn't know. I had to give my baby to people I had never met. "  -  a Mother   

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"In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we come from.  Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning.  No matter what our attainments in life, there is a vacuum and emptiness and a most disquieting loneliness." - Alex Haley, author of Roots

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"No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him."   - Thomas Jefferson

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"I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans.  I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage.  But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect.  For, after all, they could be my people." - James Michener

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" ...simply to give children away, or to take children when there is no emergency, produces great guilt. Adoption is justified when there's no one to take the children...[but] when children are adopted capriciously, and taken away from their parents and grandparents, it is an injustice." - Bert Hellinger, in Acknowledging What Is

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"[When] contracts for human life take precedence over maternal instincts and the psychological well-being of children, we are in trouble as a society." - Nancy Verrier, adoptive mother and author of The Primal Wound.  

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"I have four children, two of which were adopted. I forget which two."   - British Business and Political Correspondent Bob Constantine

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"Far from being the passive protohuman of early developmental studies, an infant has a direct experience of relationships and subsequently the self...the foundational attachments made in early life are powerfully influential on later relationships." - Balswick, King, and Reimer inThe Reciprocating Self

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"Those who know their mothers cannot imagine what it is like not to know the woman who brought you into the world. What it is like to be forbidden by law to see her face, hear her voice, know her name. No one can imagine it because it is unimaginable."   - Betty Jean Lifton, in Journey of the Adopted Self

Community and Registry Access

Core Values

Values (n): Important and enduring beliefs and ideals shared by the members of a culture about what is good and desirable, and what is not.

1. Truth, not lies.
2. Love, not fear.
3. Forgiveness, not shame.
4. Always. 

New! Vote in Our Poll

Top reason to give every adoptee unrestricted access to their original birth certificate:

AIS-CTC Reunion Registry

  You can now join the free online AIS/CTC reunion registry directly by logging in and providing information about yourself and the person(s) you are seeking. We will never sell your information to anyone. We will only disclose your information to the person(s) you are looking for. Please note that any fields labeled "visible on your profile" are visible only to the site administrator. In order to help us minimize SPAM and computer generated messages, registration involves these steps:

1) Create a login account by providing basic information and establishing your password.You will receive an electronic response from AIS/CTC.
2) Click on the link we send from the email address you provide in order to confirm your registration. 
3) Once you confirm your registration, the registry administrator will approve and enable your account, usually within 24-48 hours. You will receive a second email from AIS/CTC informing you that your account is now active. 
4) From the AIS/CTC homepage, use your login name and password and click on the "Login" button.  You will still be on the home page, but if you scroll back down the page, you will notice a greeting with your username. Click on "My Profile" to see what you've already entered, or click on "Edit My Profile" to make changes or add more detailed information about yourself and the person(s) for whom you are searching. See our FAQ section, or contact us for more help.

By joining this registry, you certify and acknowledge that you:

  • Are over the age of 18 and are the person named as the registrant or their legal representative.

  • Consent to the release of your name and contact information in the event of a possible match.

  • Agree to hold harmless Adoptees in Search - The Colorado Triad Connection, its Board, and its members from any results, errors, omissions or failure to notify any party. Please remember to update your contact information if it changes.

  • Understand that AIS/CTC makes no guarantees regarding the outcome of any registration, search and reunion. We will do everything we can to verify matches and contact people in a timely manner.  However, because we are a volunteer organization, we operate under the constraints of certain variables and limitations.

  • Please note that this registry is limited to births, adoptions and relinquishments which took place in Colorado. See our Search links for other more comprehensive online registries.

    To begin the process, click on the following link:

By clicking here, I affirm that I understand and agree to the above terms and conditions.

Thank you for becoming part of our community!