Missing pieces

From the Department of Family Services Children's Division
RE: Birth parent search ordered on February 3, 2012

Italics indicate identifying information retracted to protect the guilty innocent
[Brackets indicate identifying information retracted by DFS per U.S. law]

A girl was born ... in Taiwan on 05/05/1980. She was born to a single, unmarried woman [name retracted], who was residing at [address retracted]. The records indicate that [name retracted] affirmed that a girl was born prior to her marriage with the understanding that the natural father is unknown. A girl weighed 7 pounds when she was born. [Name retracted] gave a girl to an orphanage ... when a girl was three weeks old. ... [Name retracted] relinquished her rights on 06/10/1980. Adoptive parents who had made application with the orphanage prior, were contacted and a girl was adopted by them, in Taiwan, on 07/07/1980. Adoptive mother picked up a girl in Los Angeles at the airport on 08/16/80. On 05/14/1981 the ... Division of Family Services were ordered to do a statutory investigation for the adoption proceedings in the ... Circuit Court (a girl's note: my local social services contact is not sure why it took them so long to approach the U.S. court). There was an initial home study completed by a social worker on 07/01/1980, but an update was requested by the court and submitted on 06/05/1981 (because the first social worker was a family friend, the court would not accept the first home study). The court did not waive the 9-month supervisory period was was requested by the adopted parents' attorney, and the adoption was finalized in the Boone County Circuit Court on 09/27/1982.