{"id":249,"date":"2023-05-20T18:38:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T18:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/girland4families.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2023-05-20T18:39:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T18:39:03","slug":"original-birth-certificates-obc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girland4families.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Original Birth Certificates (OBC)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.girland4families.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/FundamentalRights.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-250\" width=\"562\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girland4families.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/FundamentalRights.jpg 750w, https:\/\/girland4families.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/FundamentalRights-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/girland4families.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/FundamentalRights-500x664.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My need to have access to my original birth certificate started when I was about ten years old. There was a bully in my class at school who didn&#8217;t believe I was adopted. He demanded proof. I don&#8217;t know why it was important to me to show him proof but I did ask my parents to see my birth certificate. I was shocked to see that I didn&#8217;t have the name of biological parents on it. Instead, my adoptive parents&#8217; names where on it. I asked my mom why this was and she explained that after an adoption it was common for adoptive parents in the 1970&#8217;s to get an amended birth certificate. In Ohio, all the other information was correct, but the biological parental names where changed to the names of the adoptive parents. Now I love my mom and dad, but this just felt like a lie to me. My parents always treated me like their daughter, but by changing the names, I felt like it robbed me of any hope of finding my biological parents or any health history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2017, all of that changed when I got my original birth certificate in the mail. When Phillip and I Googled the only parental name on it, the name of my biological mother, and we saw her Senior class yearbook photo, I was shocked by how much she looked like me. Finally, I had access to my past. A link to finding out where I came from. Granted, I was devasted and heartbroken when we found her obituary, but that obituary also gave me my Aunt Jill who was still alive, my sweet half-sister Juliana, and cousins. I finally had family who could tell me about my health history and share stories of my birth mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been following the fight of adoptees in Michigan to get their original birth certificates. Since my birth family came from Michigan, I feel a connection to them. I will support them in their fight to get what should have been theirs since their birth. No adoptee should be denied the right to know who they really are.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My need to have access to my original birth certificate started when I was about ten years old. There was a bully in my class at school who didn&#8217;t believe I was adopted. He demanded proof. 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