Please list the ideas and issues that you think of when you hear this topic. I recently wrote about this and I am curious to see what everyone else has to say. What issues pop up when granting confidentiality to birth mothers? What issues arise when taking away the confidentiality that they have been guaranteed by law?
2006-10-17 05:57:22 · 10 answers · asked by jtiernan07 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Civic Participation
sure, but unless she's gonna give daddy some rights, HE should run like hell!!!!!!!!!
2006-10-17 06:23:39 · answer #1 · answered by daddio 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Especially now when we have the technology to have a complete file on the mother's genetic history and other pertinent information. If a woman wants confidentiality, she should get it and be guaranteed it will stay that way. There is NO NEED to contact the mother (except for one's selfish personal interest) if you have all of the health information available.
Plus, if you can kill a child through abortion and have it kept confidential, how come you can't do the same when you offer it a better life?
2006-10-17 06:13:40 · answer #2 · answered by Goose&Tonic 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
As a birth Mother who has confidentiality I will tell you why I wanted it then and still do today. My child was born in 1965 and things were different then especially for young girls who were pregnant. We were ashamed of ourselves and sought to hide away while we were pregnant. I went to a home for unwed mothers and I gave birth there. I was not allowed to see my baby and keeping her was not even an option. I love that child but for her to have the best possible life I could not be a part of that life. Many times I have wondered about her. Did she love to read like I do, Did she go to college? Is she married? Does she have children? I will never have any of these answers. My daughter got a family who loved her and raised her. They gave to her things I could not hope to give her. I did not and do not have a right to give to her the shame I felt at having her. I hope she does not come looking for me I have no right to know her. Today's young women are different but if they have reasons to stay hidden they should have that option. The reasons could be trauma(pregnancy by rape) or youth or shame. This is the one thing we can give these children and for most it expresses the love we will never be able to share.
2006-10-17 11:55:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The one issue that is dispositive in favor of maintaining STRICT confidentiality is abortion.
A legal abortion is the end. No later ramifications, no midnight phone calls 20 years later, no responsibility. It's over, done, finito.
It would make no sense to give a birth mother LESS finality when she puts a child up for adoption, assuming that she affirmatively wants such assurances of privacy.
If we cannot guarantee the ongoing privacy of a birth mother that wants it, it's entirely possible that some might choose abortion to get that assurance of privacy.
2006-10-17 06:34:50 · answer #4 · answered by open4one 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
IF I was either Slick Willie Clinton's mom, or Hillary Rottweiler Clinton's mom, I sure would want to keep that confidential.
2006-10-17 08:30:44 · answer #5 · answered by Spirit Walker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One major issue is if they are hiding from an abusive apouse or bio father. This could place their life and the life of their child.
2006-10-17 06:05:50 · answer #6 · answered by mfcarroll1102 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. As long as their child is going to a secure and nurturing home. Better if she give her child up without fear than taking the child's life by disposing of it **shudders**
2006-10-17 06:08:49 · answer #7 · answered by Nels 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No because a child has the right to know who his/her father is. Women seem to think the child belongs to them while they are pregnant, but the father has as much rights to the child as the mother does.
2006-10-17 06:05:50 · answer #8 · answered by twinkle 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A person has a fundamental right to know where they came from, and this right is more important than a vain "right" of privacy.
2006-10-17 08:34:48 · answer #9 · answered by manabovetime 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i believe it is controversy, try spell check
2006-10-17 13:44:45 · answer #10 · answered by Simplystunning 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋