Adoptee rights

[3] As children adopted in the Baby Scoop Era began to reach adulthood in the 1970s, interest in adoptee rights increased significantly.

These include not having information about their own ethnic or religious background, lack of access to medical history, and psychological and emotional challenges relating to attachment.

[2] Adoptees' Liberty Movement Association founder Florence Fisher called sealed records "an affront to human dignity.

Some adoptee rights organizations are also concerned with the anonymous relinquishment of infants and oppose the implementation of baby boxes, which they believe trivializes the legal abandonment of newborns.

[13] The Adoptee Rights Law Center has been a vocal opponent of baby boxes as being a temporary, inadequate solution to problems facing new parents.

[14] Anonymous infant relinquishment also echoes the problems of closed adoption, with adoptees left without information about their background or their medical history.

[14] In the early 2000s, anti-adoption viewpoints began to become more prominent, prompted by growing recognition of problems within the adoption industry including coercion, corruption, and lack of transparency.