Changes to Australia's Adoption Act could make the adoption process easier for everyone involved. Women would no longer have to stop fertility treatments, and both adoptive parents and the adopted child would have access to the child's records before he or she turned 18.

"The changes are among several proposed by the state government to simplify adoptions locally and overseas, including by foster carers. The Minister of Community Services, Linda Burney, said the changes will mean people will no longer need to go through so much red tape."

One of the proposed changes would give adoptive parents copies of a child's original and amended birth certificates, and would allow the child access to the same information. Some child welfare agencies oppose the changes, citing concerns that access to too much information could drive birth parents "underground," leaving more adopted children with less access to their birth parents. Source: Illawarra (AU) Mercury

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