Graff # 7 I Search brainstorm ?'s and ideas

        Brain storming this topic could be considered a lite firecracker.There are many questions and ideas floating around.I will try to stay focused and just list the questions.

1. How long has adoption been around in our country?
2. Was it an underground bussiness at one time?
3. Were the people involved banished cast aside as if they were less than?
4. What information if any did adoptive parents recieve?
5. What information were adoptive childern given about how they came to be?
6. Were people involved told to lie about how they came about having this child?
7. Was adoption ever considered a crime in this country?
8. Were there ever people arrested or worse done to them for being involved in an adoption?
9. Were the adopted childern meant to feel a part of thier family or made to feel like an outcast?
10. When was adoption made a legal transaction?
11. Did the legalization of abortion influence adoption rates?
12. How did society as a whole treat adoptees and thier adoptive parents?
13. Were birthmothers sent away to have thier babies in secret?
14. Did birthmothers have the choice to hold or meet their babies?
15. Did they have the option to leave written notes for thier birth childern?
16. Did the adoptive parents give these notes to the childern?(As I write that question I realize it was probably a personal decision and depended on the family's feelings)
17. Did the ideas and feelings differ from state to state and coast to coast or was there a general feeling throughout the country?
18. How many of those childern chose to look for thier birthparents?
19. How many of the adoptive parents supported them looking and how many did not?
20. How did adoption evolve into "open adoptions" of today?
21. Are the childern of open adoptions better off than those of closed adoption?
22. What do the majority of birthparents feel about their birthchildern years later?
23. How did orphanages impact adoption?
24. How many childern if any had attachment issues do to an adoption?
25. Would a birthparent do it again knowing what they know years later?

         I could offer more and more questions but it would probably never end.I'm not sure if all these questions can be answered in a paper or even if they all need to be.But I'm certain that some can,all should be explored and that there are plenty of hidden rocks in the bend.