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Search Services: By law, birth parents and adoptees may search for each other after the adoptee reaches the age of 18. If an adoptee is under the age of 18, parent may request a search for physical or mental information. Holt can provide adoptees adopted through Holt International Children's Services with background information available in their adoption file and assist with searches, if requested. Please contact Holt's Post adoption Services Program for information about these services.


Background Information: If you were adopted through Holt International Children's Services in the United States, Holt can provide copies of your file and other adoption related documents. Often information is available about orphanages and other settings where adoptees may have lived. Information about the broader cultural and historical forces at work in adoption may help all parties understand the birth parent's decision.

Results of Korean Adoptee Survey

Results of Vietnamese Adoptee Survey

Holt suggests the following Web sites for more information about search issues:

Searching for Birth Parents,
by Hollee McGinnis

Search and Reunion in International Adoption,
by Susan Soon-Keum Cox

Read a recent article about searching through Holt by Laura Crawford Hofer, former Director Post Adoption Services

Find books about adoption issues in Holt's
Recommended Reading

National Adoption Information Clearinghouse (NAIC):
http://naic.acf.hhs.gov

Korean Adoptees: also-known-as, inc.
http://www.alsoknownas.org

Vietnamese Adoptee Network:
http://www.van-online.org

Filipino Adoptees Network
http://www.filipino-adoptees-network.org

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