Family Member

Adoption affects many people but rarely are the feelings of adoptee’s extended birth family members addressed. We recognize that adoption touches siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles.

It may be helpful to know that in 2005 Missouri revised its adoption law allowing sibling to search for each other. Adult siblings of an adoptee can register with the Missouri Adoption Registry.

Consent from adoptive parents and birth parents is still required unless they are no longer living. For more information about the law, please see Missouri Adoption Law.

Extended birth family members are welcome to send gifts of letters, cards, or photographs to be placed in the adoption file. These are invaluable gestures to the adoptee and their family should they request information from their adoption file.

For more information, please contact us at search@chsmo.org or 314.968.2350 x230