Obviously this isn’t speaking for all adoptees that have had their names changed and are fine with it. We all process our adoptions differently and that’s a good thing. The focus should always be about the child and adoption wasn’t meant to be the witness protection program so name changes often are for the desires of the adults not the children. For many adoptees like myself we have zero connection to our name(s) given by our adoptive parents & others can have no connection to the name given by