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"Coalition to Defend Privacy in Adoption?" Anybody but me concerned about the bizarre coalition that's joined forces here to keep adoption in the dark ages and deny adoptees basic civil rights? Strange bedfellows, indeed. Here's the deal. I was the DYFS Adoption Registry Coordinator for 6 years. I can count on one hand the number of birth mothers who did not want contact with the children they placed for adoption. And hello, lots of birth fathers and siblings are out aching for reunions....guess what they'd tell you about secrecy in adoption--I handled a lot of angry and emotional phone calls--they were right to be mad--as were their adopted family members. Surprise, not everybody that's placed a child for adoption was or is middle or even working class. Lot's of poor people, folks who had a tough time in their youths and got themselves straightened out, our challenged brothers and sisters with developmental disabilities and mental health problems also had to, or due to the circumstances of there cases, were forced to place. But, no matter who these birth family members are, they have one thing in common--virtually all hunger for that day when the person they placed makes contact. I've seen it, I've made it happen and I know that the fight for one's original birth certificate is not only good and just, it's a basic civil right…and dare I suggest, God's work.