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According to one of the viewpoints, adoption records should be unsealed to allow easier access to adoptees and birth parents. If you were adopted, or you were a parent who gave up your child for adoption, would you want those records easy to find? Why or why not?.

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  1. According to one of the viewpoints, adoption records should be unsealed to allow easier access to adoptees and birth parents. If you were adopted, or you were a parent who gave up your child for adoption, would you want those records easy to find? Why or why not? • In “Unsealing Adoption Records Could Have Negative Consequences,” it is stated that blood isn’t always thicker than water. What do you think and why? • If a biological parent gives up the rights to their child, in what instances should they be allowed to access his or her records? Would the situation be different if a biological mother had her children forcibly taken from her? Explain. • As seen in Oedipus, the truth can often be revealed with a certain amount of emotional trauma and backlash. What kind of trauma could unsealing adoption records cause? Who would be harmed the most: the adoptee, the birth parent, the adopted parent? Why?

  2. Oedipus is largely concerned with the idea of free will when considered in the eyes of fate. Knowing that the play deals with such a theme, how are adopted children forced to deal with this idea of free will when it comes to knowing their biological parents? Do parents who give up their children for adoption forfeit their influence in their child’s lives once they’ve placed them up for adoption?

  3. In many ways, adoption records function for adoptees in the same manner the oracle functions for Oedipus. Teiresias tells Oedipus that in some cases the truth isn’t always helpful. In what way could this advice apply to the adoption argument? Is it a natural human condition to want to know where you come from? Is that impulse similar to a prophecy in that adoptees will constantly seek the truth till it is discovered?

  4. When looking at the idea of “forced anonymity” and how it affects birth mothers considering adoption, how culpable is the character Jocasta in her relationship with Oedipus? What changes could she have made in her “cause-and-effect” chain to prevent fulfilling the prophecy? Are their changes our culture can make to proactively help birth mothers, birth parents, and adoptees?

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