Excellent article, particularly the link between identity theft and adoption. This definitely exists and predisposes adoptees to being psychologically vulnerable and subject to bullying. When truth has been denied from birth and in many cases human rights, this is a big isssue. Even if no money was ever involved, past systems of adoption, in my country, involved coercion, institutional abuse, stigma, etc. The Mother and Baby home system was run by nuns, and there was huge abuse. I wrote stories about it.