Good Luck, Ken

I have no idea who Ken Hill is, except that he is an adult domestic adoptee who is looking for his biological parents.  He writes:

-Searching for biological parents
-Male Adoptee:
-Born May 2nd, 1970 at Virginia Mason in Seattle.
-Weighed 4lbs, 9oz
-Father was Senior in High School, ASB President, skilled in logic and debate.
-Mother was Junior in High School, skilled in painting and played guitar.
-Ancestry: German, Scottish, Irish, Czech

Reporting on Ken’s quest to find his biological family through Facebook and the Internet, Margie Boule writes in The Oregonian:

He grew up happy and comfortable with the knowledge he’d been adopted at birth.

But now he wants to meet his biological family. And the state of Washington makes that difficult.

Adoptees, Ken says, can’t view their original birth records. The state will allow adoptees to pay $500 and get a court-appointed intermediary to look up the information and contact the biological parents. “But the intermediary might say your biological parents don’t want to know you.”

Ken believes adoptees have a right to know who they really are. “When the state withholds it, they’re discriminating. And there’s something just wrong about having to pay $500 to the state, with no guarantee you will get the information you so want. It’s not a hard amount to save up, but it’s the principle behind it. It could be $20 or it could be $1,000. I shouldn’t have to pay it.”

Ken says he’s “a working-class guy that lives paycheck to paycheck” and can’t afford private detectives.

So he decided to take his search online, in hopes it goes viral. “I’m asking people to spread it around. Human interaction is the key element in this thing. The Internet is just the technological vehicle.”

If you have any information that could help Ken, please contact him at:

http://multimancer.livejournal.com/58120.html

http://www.facebook.com/multimancer

kennethghill at gmail . com