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With advances in computer technology and DNA science, it seems likely that a solution be found for children away from China for their family of origin. That day seemed far in the future. But that day is here now, and he arrived 20 years before I expected. A new type of website provides the means to adopt parents of children adopted from China to discover if their child has a brother, a half-brother, cousin or other relative was adopted around the world. In addition, the birth parents in China will be able to find their biological child who was adopted by a family living somewhere in the world. While adoptions in China are the biggest example of what is now possible, it applies to any adoption in the world today. I do not think it is fair to say that it is the most amazing developments in the field of information on adoptions in the past 25 years.

There are two new types of sites in particular, which seem useful to the community of adoption. They are interesting because the two types are the first of a new kind of sites. The first are social networking sites of DNA, and the second are mainly sites of gene decoding.

1. Adoption Network DNA

Adoption of the DNA network is part of a new internet service from the New York Times called Zygotic Social Networking. These network services allow users to build a social network around the sharing of genetic material. Like Facebook, users are able to post photos, update their profile, blog, and send messages to each other. More importantly, for adoptive families, they facilitate the search for parents and allow members to compare the genetic characteristics.

Basically, you subscribe to the service, do a cheek swab, send it in, and part of your genetic heritage compare to others on the database. You or someone else (somewhere in the world) can click on a map that shows a marker for all other members around the world that share genetic markers that are in your DNA profile.

Perhaps even more surprising is that the creators of these sites believe that we are only at the beginning of their capabilities and usefulness. Experts estimate that each new discovery in the field of genetics will provide users with new information on their identity.

Who would use this service?

A wide range of community adoption will be able to use these sites:

(I) the biological parents who placed a child for adoption (or perhaps an abandoned child) can search for their child in the world with a single record.
(Ii) When children become teenagers dopted or young adults, they often want to know more about their roots. So they can not find their birth parents immediately, they can locate other relatives. To identify the brothers and sisters, half brothers, cousins or grandparents, it will be necessary for one of their biological parents to register on the site (Currently you need a parent to enter also to say definitively that both parents are brothers and sisters). Parents may arise now or a decade or two later that the new parents to register on the site.
(Iii) adopted adults. Life is long, and at a time when adopted children become adults, they often want to seek their roots. While adoptive parents now generally tell their children they were adopted, which has not always been the case, it is not universally true. Accordingly, those subscribing to these sites, which had no idea they were adopted, may be a surprise.
(Iv) Adoptive parents who want to find brothers and sisters, the birth parents or other relatives of their adopted child may register their child. Parents enrolling children over 13 requires the agreement of the child to do. In fact, it seems strange that teenagers could probably regist adopted.