I feel the need to go into a few details, because it's alot more than just a name on a birth certificate. Even though I'm an adult, there are still "rights" that the step-parent has to me, my possesions, and even my children. If anything were to happen to me (untimely death) and my children needed to be taken in by family, there's a chance that they could be in the custody of the step-dad who adopted me (even though there's a one in a million chance of that happening). And due to his recent run in with the law (felony conviction of sodomy with a 14year old girl, and now a registered sex offender), maybe you can see why it's more important for me to be able to severe all legal ties with this person. And it matters ALOT (to me personally) of who is on my birth certificate. To still have this man's name on there as my "father", it disgusts me to see it. Knowing what kind of a person he is now, and his failures as a parental figure in my younger years of life, he doesn't deserve the right to still be legally named as my "father".

