Footnotes

1. The History of Adoption, Accessed 1May 2003.
2. We Three Kings, Accessed 2 May 2003.
3. The Avalon Project: Code of Hammurabi,Yale University , accessed 5 May 2003.
4. Medieval Sourcebook: The Institutes, 535 CE, Fordham University , accessed 5 May 2003.
5. "The Avalon Project: Code of Hammurabi" website, Section 193.
6. A Brief History of Sealed Adoption Records, Accessed 5 May 2003.
7. "The History of Adoption" website.
8. "The History of Adoption" website
9. Katarina Wegar, Adoption, Identity and Kinship: the Debate over Sealed Birth Records (New Haven, CN: Yale University Press, 1997), p. 108-109.
10. Adoptee's Liberty Movement Association, Accessed 8 May 2003.
11. Concerned United Birthparents, Accessed 8 May 2003.
12. Bastard Nation, Accessed 8 May 2003.
13. State Regulations: Non-Identifying & Identifying Information, accessed 10 May 2003.
14. Adoption Records by State, accessed 12 May 2003.
15. Arthur D. Sorosky, M.D., Annete Baran, M.S.W., Reuben Pannor, M.S.W., The Adoption Triangle (San Antonio, TX: Corona Publishing, 1984).
16. Wegar, p. 13
17. Babb, p. 78.
18. All scriptural references are taken from The New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Revised Standard Version, ed. Bruce M. Metzger and Roland E. Murphy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991)
19. Exodus 2:1-10
20. Exodus 2:9-10
21. Esther 2:7
22. Matthew 1:21, 1:25
23. Matthew 1:1-16
24. Luke 2:48-49
25. Exodus 20:16
26. John 8:32
27. Genesis 17:4-8
28. Exodus 3:7-12
29. Joshua 1:1-9
30. Joshua 2:8-21
31. Genesis 2:18
32. Matthew 18:20
33. Romans 12:5; 1 Corinthians 12:12, 27; Ephesians 3:6
34. Wegar, p. 82.
35. R. Wuthnow, Meaning and Moral Order: Explorations in Cultural Analysis (Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 1987) p. 201.
36. Quoted by the Rev. Tom Brosnan, M.Div., M.F.A in Ethics and Adoption: A Spiritual Perspective, accessed 2 May 2003.