Beyond Records: Adoptees’ Experiences of Family Origins and Reunion in Quebec’s Changing Legal Landscape
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Abstract
In Quebec, recent legislative reforms have significantly increased access to previously sealed adoption records, leading to a marked rise in identity disclosure requests. Since the introduction of the first reform, more than 92,200 requests were received by centralized and regional agencies from citizens seeking information about their adoption history or exploring possibilities for reunions with birth family members. Since the first reform in 2018, 22,639 reunions have taken place. This article presents findings from a qualitative exploratory study conducted following the implementation of the recent legislative reforms granting larger access to adoption records. Our research examines adoptees’ motivations, needs, and experiences in their search for origins and family connections, spanning several decades (adoption through public child welfare agencies between 1970 and 2010).
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it