The Adoptee Rights Demonstration

The Adoptee Rights Coalition would like to express their best wishes to filmmaker Julie Goldstein of Artifact Pictures, who has completed work on her documentary “I Am Adopted“. We had the pleasure of meeting Julie last July at the Philadelphia Adoptee Rights Demonstration as she worked on her film.

Julie’s film will premiere on MiND TV‘s Philadelphia Stories in March, 2010.

Adoption has been a subject of social interest for years – national debates about non-traditional families, and reproductive rights have all touched on this difficult issue. In all the discussion, however, the experience of the adult adoptee is rarely heard or acknowledged. Aside from the emotional and psychological dimensions of the adoptee’s experience, there is also a legal aspect, as adult adoptees are, in most states, including Pennsylvania, being kept from accessing their own birth records. The laws that prevent them from doing so are a legacy of a social climate that stigmatized infertility, out-of-wedlock birth, and adoption. This documentary brings to light the experiences of adoptees whose life experiences, as part of the adoption triad (adoptee, birthmother, adoptive parents), are not always socially recognized. Producer Julie Goldstein frames this documentary with her own personal experience – a reunion with her birthmother – which evolved while she attended the Adoptee Rights Demonstration in Philadelphia in 2009.

We are extremely proud of Julie and honored to know her. Please keep an eye on PhiladelphiaStories.tv if you are in the metro Philadelphia area, and join us in celebrating Julie’s new film.

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