Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Updated disclosure and contact veto stats

In July I posted a summary of numbers from the Ontario government about forms relating to adoption disclosure. Today's copy of the Cornwall Standard-Freeholder has an interesting reunion story which includes some new stats from the government which are good till July 24, so I've included them in an updated summary and corrected some minor errors from before:


Forms relating to adoption disclosure received by MCSS, Sept 2008 to present
Sept–Dec 2008Jan–Apr 2009May 2009Jun 1–19, 2009Jun 20-Jul 24Total
Disclosure VetoAll9211,4902,2431,367~400~6,400
Filed by birth parent543490????
Filed by adoptee3581,000????
No Contact Notice (contact veto)All1,050265152~50~1,500
Filed by birth parent650????
Filed by adoptee400????
Notice of Contact PreferenceAll1,5001512191822052
Filed by birth parent625????
Filed by adoptee875????
Post-Adoption Birth Information03,4432,7916,234

(The ? symbols indicate a lack of information on my part.)

(Note that the Standard-Freeholder story credits the reunion to the new law; I doubt very much that this is possible. The government is certainly not at the stage even now, where a one-week turnaround time is possible, and they were hugely backlogged in June. Plus, if this were through the new law, it would be the adoptee doing the calling, not the Custodian of Adoption Information. Much more likely is the explanation that this was done through the old search service offered by the Adoption Disclosure Register and the timeframe near June 1 was just a coincidence or an effort to clear old backlogs before everything changes!).

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