Patricia Knight Meyer

Patricia Knight Meyer on Adoption, Identity, and the Right to Know | 1,663 Patricia Knight Meyer believes every person deserves access to the truth of their own identity, and no one should have to spend decades proving who they are. An author, speaker, and adoption reform advocate, Patricia was handed over as an infant along a Texas hospital curb in 1970 without an agency, judge, or legal adoption paperwork. She grew up with a fraudulent birth certificate and little documentation of her true identity. At 39, Patricia began searching for answers with no original records, known birth name, or confirmed birthplace. Her investigation eventually led her to both of her birth parents, and at 47, she received her first legal birth certificate. She shares her journey in WONDERLAND: Memoir of a Black-Market Adoption, an award-winning memoir exploring identity, secrecy, family separation, reunion, and the consequences of an adoption system that failed to legally recognize who she was…