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  • Sep 23, 2011, 02:06 PM
    anita4055
    I am wondering if I was adopted?
    On my birth certificate under child's name it's blank. Does that mean I was adopted?
  • Sep 23, 2011, 02:47 PM
    Curlyben
    More likely it simply means your parents hadn't thought of an appropriate name for you when it came to register your birth.

    Odd, certainly, but not unheard of.
  • Sep 23, 2011, 05:18 PM
    Synnen
    Nope. An adoptee's birth certificate looks no different than a child raised by birth parents.

    What it likely means is that you don't have your OFFICIAL (filed with the government) birth certificate in your hands. Generally, once you are named a new birth certificate is issued.
  • Sep 23, 2011, 07:17 PM
    Fr_Chuck
    No in fact is is an almost sure sign you were not, a person who is adopted has new birth certificates made, with their name, and the new adoptive parents.

    So one with the child's name blank, means that
    1. the state made a mistake and printed it blank
    2. they had not chosen a name by the time they left the hospital

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