Open adoption will now be the norm, not the exception, and that adoptive parents, adopted children, child protective services, the courts, the judges, social services, adoption agencies etc need to accept that there is no longer a 0% chance of the adopted child reconnecting with his/her birth relatives anymore.    Instead, there is a very real chance of this happening before the adopted child’s 18th birthday.    The more tech determined and tech savvy the birth relatives and adopted child are, and the greater their presence on social networks increases the likelihood of this happening.       If all the confidential information enters the kid’s long term memory, don’t count on child protective services or the courts being able to reverse this easily.     As one person said in the report, “it is foolish to assume confidentiality exists in adoption anymore”.

  Adopted children will have to know the honest, accurate and uncensored versions of their life story, and the reasons they were taken away by the time they are 11, if not before.    Parents of adopted children will need to counseled on how to handle the complex emotions involved with birth family connections, and how to avoid adoption breakdowns.