by Naomi Cahn

About the author: Naomi Cahn is a law professor at George Washington University Law School.

Editor’s note: The following is taken from testimony before Congress in 1998 regarding proposed legislation to establish a national voluntary adoption reunion registry. Although the Senate passed the legislation in 1997, the bill died in the House of Representatives.

My name is Naomi Cahn, and I teach Family Law at George Washington University Law School, where I am an Associate Professor of Law. I have taught Family Law at George Washington University for the past five years; prior to that, I was a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where I taught in a domestic violence clinic. In my work in college, law school and afterwards, I have continually...