Statistics on Number of People Touched by Adoption
According to Dr. Ruth McRoy at the UT School of Social Work, there are approximately 5,000,000 US births each year. Of that, approximately 118,000 are adoptions (roughly 2.36% new adoptees each year).
Anywhere in the US, a minimum of 2.3% of the population are women who are also birthmothers who have placed children for adoption. Then you also have 2.3% of the population who are birth fathers, and 4.7% of the population who are adoptive parents. Total that up and you have about 11% of the population who are triad members. That does not count aunts, uncles and grandparents to adoptive families and birth families.
Whenever you are in a room of strangers you can figure that one out every ten is a triad member.
By all means use these numbers so folks know that this is an issue that directly touches many of their voters.
More than 50 percent of adoptions were within the biological family. In every case, the original birth certifcate was sealed and an amended birth certificate issued. As the Texas law stands, it requires a court order to unseal the original birth certificates for all of these children.
