courtesy Eric Levitz
Paul Dinberg and his birth mother Carol Whitehead. It was Carol who sought Paul out ahead of their 1985 reunion. She is an advocate for a law that might have allowed Paul to instead find her.
New York legislators are venturing into the delicate issue of connecting adopted children to the parents who gave them up—they’re considering whether to give all adopted children access to their birth records.
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