Paper Outline. 1. Introduction: a) The relationship between the development of a person and a possible damage done by the knowledge of the adoption records. Adoption can play an important role in a person's self-development and self actualization; however only when let to know at a right time. b) Current view on the adoption situation. 2. Body: Three reasons supporting the view. a) Keeping the confidentiality of the side which rejected a child. b) Disrupting effects the …showed first 75 words of 1207 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1207 total…known arises from society's reluctance to recognize that we are not speaking of children. Bibliography: 1.Birmingham, Barbara. Why Didn't She Keep Me?: Answers to the Brown Questions Every Adopted Child Asks. South Bend, IN: Diamond Communications, 1998. 2.Berebitsky, Julie. Like Our Very Own: Adoption and the Changing Culture of Motherhood, 1851-1950. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2000. 3.Akhtar, Salman and Kramer, Selma eds. Thicker Than Blood: Bonds of Fantasy and Reality in Adoption. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 2000.