In 1959, my adoptive parents asked their lawyer to contact the church in which I was baptized to have a new baptismal certificate issued in my adopted name of Joan Mary Wheeler. The priest wrote up a new baptismal certificate with my new name and the names of my adoptive parents, as if ...
And I didn’t have money to pay a lawyer to fight the case and so I just hoped for the best. When talking about international adoption, Valentino reflects on how harmful this process can be for the biological family and the adoptive child. He adds: Please let’s not do that anymore,...