Adoption Disclosure Program News Today

The Nova Scotia government is moving to unseal adoption records. The Liberal government has introduced legislation that will allow adopted children and birth parents to access adoption information if they choose to do so. The change will apply to all adoption records will take full effect in April of next year. Minister of Community Services Kelly Regan says the government worked to create a balance in modernizing the legislation. “Adoption records are a sensitive and deeply personal matter,�...

Nova Scotia is currently the only province in the country that doesn’t have open adoption records, but that will change next year.