Because of DNA and social media, the true gamechangers in our 21st century society, it is reckless and irresponsible for anyone, or any state for that matter, to even imply that someone could remain anonymous. Sending the message that lifelong anonymity is a reality for anyone in today's world is akin to a cruel joke, at this juncture. By continuing the practice of barring adoptees from their information in the guise of birth parent protection, the state wrongly sends the message that it has the ability to keep someone's identity anonymous. This could not be further from the truth. The state has never really had this ability or authority, and certainly cannot with the advent of these prolific game changers.
With 20 million DNA kits sold, all domestically born adoptees have to do is test with one of several DNA companies to be connected to biological family. If the test is financially out of reach, joining a fb high school reunion group from their year and town of birth is often all that is needed to find biological family. The need for these public searches is reduced in states that pass access legislation, replacing it with a much more private phone call or email, which avoids the need to contact high school friends and cousins, as is happening now. So, counter to what the few remaining dissenters argue, in the real world we live in, sealed records jeopardizes privacy, whereas access provides a more private path for those searching. Good government is about passing laws for the actual society we currently live in, not pandering to fictuous myths of a bygone era. We live in a new century requiring new laws.
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