Florence Anna Fisher was an American adoptee and author of ''The Search for Anna Fisher'', an autobiography that told of her experiences as an adopted person who set out to search for her biological roots and pre-adoption identity. She is considered one of the founders of the modern

adoptee rights Adoptee rights are the legal and social rights of adopted people relating to their adoption and identity. These rights frequently center on access to information which is kept record sealing, sealed within closed adoptions, but also include issue ...

movement in the United States, having founded the Adoptees Liberty Movement Association in 1971. Fisher spoke out strongly against the sealed records of

closed adoption Closed adoption (also called "confidential" adoption and sometimes "secret" adoption) is a process by which an infant is adopted by another family, and the record of the biological parent(s) is kept sealed. Often, the biological father is not re ...

, which became commonplace in the mid-twentieth century. In a 1974 ''

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'' article, Fisher said, "People today are finding secrecy evil. They are more open and they want to know the truth." She maintained that whether an adoptive home was supportive or abusive is irrelevant to the damage done by adoption, because adoptees still grapple with questions of identity. She died in Brooklyn, New York on October 1, 2023.

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