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From: Steven Dhuey <>
Subject: Adoptive mothers
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 08:11:20 -0600
In-Reply-To: <199912310357.TAA04638@bl-11.rootsweb.com>

>Regardless of the percentages, it is always `possible' that a named father
>might not be the real father.
>
>However, assuming accurate records, the named mother will almost always be
>the real mother.


Unfortunately, this too cannot be assumed to be true. The revised birth
records of adoptees will give no indication that the adoptive parents named
on the birth certificates were not the birth parents. The revised birth
record of an adoptee may be legally accurate, but not biologically.

-Steve

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