Open Records in Adoption Poll: 100% Favor Change in Laws

I have been eyeing that bit of real estate on my sidebar. The one where I have that poll. My side bar is too long. It' just that my blogrools are huge. I guess I shoul dgo through them, but that always means that I must add more. Which is good, but it makes for a very long sidebar. I guess it balances out my long posts. Anyway, I have been counting down the days for the poll to end. It's been up for over a year. It's closed. Finially. The results are rather surprising. But not. If you haven't noticed and have no idea what I am taklking about, then here, let me explain. I took a poll. I asked:

Do you support access for adult adoptees to obtain their Original Birth Certificate?

And you could answer yes or no and we to idenify which portion of the so called adoption triade you wee in. So you could be an adoptee, an adoptive parent, a parent of loss, or not directly effected.

Two Hundred and fifty seven people voted. 100% of that 257 said yes.

And the breakdown was as follows:

Adoptees: 45 or 17% Parents of Loss:68 or 26% Adoptive Parents: 89 or 34% Unaffected: 52 or 20%

Now what is really no that surprising is that everyone said yes, that they support open access for records. I mean, one would think hat anyone who came here would be of like mind.

But, there was once a time when people "on the other side" would purposely go and skew polls just to prove their point. Heck, I have rallied votes when needed.

What I find interesting and surprising is that no one voted no. Not one person. Someone who found their way here at least ONCE in over a year must have felt strongly in favor for closed recors.

Or maybe not.

And that, makes me ponder in a good way.

and now I can take down the poll!