Did you know that adopted people are the only people in the world that lose their entire family and are supposed to be happy about it?

Did you know that in Tennessee, where they still have the death penalty, that adopted people are entitled to their true biological birth certificates?

Did you know that the government originally legislated adoption to stop the unregulated traffic in human infants, and that the original statue makers recommended that adoption hearings be held in a judge's chambers, but found it would be abhorrent and illegal to deliberately deprive people of their origins?

Did you know that the same committees recommended that the birth parents meet and choose the prospective adoptive parents and maintain contact as the best interest of the child?

Did you know that private adoptions are unregulated adoptions and equivalent to an unregulated trade in human infants?

Did you ever wonder why it costs over $29,000.00 to $75,000 in legal fees for a private adoption when the costs of filing an adoption can cost well under $2,000.00?

Did you know that there are thousands of children right now who are need of a secure home and family but the waiting lists for infants can be up 6 years?

Did you know that movement of newborn infants from Mexico to the United States generates 4 billion dollars a year between the attorney's fees and the adoption industry?

Did you know that this confidentiality has metamorphisized into a myth by a lot of self-interested men who really want privacy for themselves because they couldn't keep their own privates private?

Did you know that adoption is supposed to be only in the best interests of the child and a last resort?

Did you know that in Australia the government has a positive obligation to support new mothers and their babies for 6 months because in this period after pregnancy is not a time to make any life-altering decisions?

Did you know that in England the government is actively involved in helping people conceived from sperm donation to find out the identities of their paternal lineages?

Did you know that in the Scandinavian countries a birth certificates contains the names of the "egg mother", womb mother", "social mother", biological father" and "social Father"?

Did you know that the truth can set all people free?

Did you ever think that defending the "privacy" interests of women who conceived of rape is sending them the message that it is their fault and their shame and to society's shame?

Did you know that adopted people who aren't allowed to talk about adoption and don't know the truth will like any child, think the worst and that it is their fault?

Did you know that children who grow up to be adults and have learned to think this way, have a hard time with self-esteem?

Did you ever think that when you're closest friend or companion dies you'd just get another one? - adopted people are expected to think this way about their birth families!

Did you ever look in the mirror and not recognise anything about yourself in another member of your family?

Did you ever think that existential angst might be ever more than a passing phase?

Did you ever ask the age-old questions, "Where do I come from?", "Why am I here?" and "Where am I going?" and have no clue?

Did you know that infants adopted legally in international adoptions have the right to know where they came from and the government supports families in reuniting them but if you're Canadian born you have to work your way through a bureaucracy and defend your right to know where you came from, including proving you won't hurt anyone?

Did you know that grieving is the healthy way to deal with loss rather than pretending it never happened?

Did you know that when you tell a kid that their mother gave them up because she loves them so much, that it might set a strange pattern of relationships?

Did you ever love someone so much that you never saw them again?

Did you know that you're adopted?