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Originally Posted by 33girl
Closed adoptions have NEVER prevented the mother from telling the (usually) doctor who's facilitating the adoption "I have a family history of breast cancer, my dad's dad had a heart condition, etc etc." If the woman didn't share that, it's because she didn't know herself. If she was impregnated by a man she never saw again, it's pretty hard to know what his medical history is.
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They haven't- but hardly any adoptees I know have any medical history, be they domestic or international adoptees. A lot of adoptions go like this: "here's an apparently healthy kid, do you want to adopt him/her?" And people are so desperate for a baby that they don't ask any questions.
Sometimes the adoptive parents or adoptees do get some medical history later on. We had none on one of our girls at first but were able to get in touch with her birthfamily; good thing, because her birthdad died of diabetes in his 40s so she knows she needs to watch for it. (And now we are all big buddies with them on Facebook, haha.)
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