Adoptees deserve the right to know their parentage

Adoptees deserve the right to know their parentage

As far as leads go, what Judy Mahar had was skimpy.

The social worker at the adoption agency that placed her 44 years ago wanted to help Mahar find her biological parents -- really she did. Yet all she revealed was that the woman had a "very short last name," Mahar recalls, "that it was at the beginning of the alphabet, that it was an unusual name and that she had three stepbrothers." And one last thing, that Mahar's mom was from Fairfield County.