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Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 2,185 Send Message	Ali	Report	18 May 2011 13:23
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 2,185 Send Message	Can anyone tell me please if a child was adopted by a step father then why would the birth mother also be on the adoption cert?
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 2,185 Send Message	Ali	Report	18 May 2011 13:41
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 2,185 Send Message	I have two birth certs, one when i was born 1962 & one eight years later 1970 when i was adopted by my step father i know my mother was my birth mother so why would she be on the adoption cert can anyone tell me how i can find out please?
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 2,185 Send Message	Ali	Report	18 May 2011 13:43
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 2,185 Send Message	Thank you PigletsPal
Member Since: February 2010 Posts: 18,936 Send Message	Flick	Report	18 May 2011 13:52
	It's what is known as a 'Mother's Own' adoption............... Your mother had to 'adopt' you , because, if only your stepfather had done so, you would have no longer been legally your mother's child. You would have been his.................
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 2,185 Send Message	Ali	Report	18 May 2011 14:01
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 2,185 Send Message	Thank you Flick