Jean M. Paton

This article is about the American adoptee rights activist. For the British botanist, see Jean Paton.

Jean M. Paton (1908 – 2002) was an American adoptee rights activist who worked to reverse harmful policies, practices, and laws concerning adoption and closed records. Paton founded the adoptee support and search network Orphan Voyage in 1953, helping connect adoptees with their birthparents, and was instrumental in the creation of the American Adoption Congress and Concerned United Birthparents in the 1970s.[1]

  1. ^ "Adoption History: Jean M. Paton, The Adopted Break Silence, 1954". The Adoption History Project. University of Oregon. Retrieved 16 November 2024.