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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".
Um no. Just no.

Where are your children's father? If something happened to you, he would be the first person they would go to and then if he is deceased or can't be located, they don't just hand kids over to family members. If he is a convicted sex offender I highly doubt they would place your children with him.

You've been told how you have to do this. You have to have another adult adopt you but then your mother will no longer legally be your mother.

You know how many people have shitty parents who they wish were not legally or biologically their parent? And listed on the birth certificate?

I know people who have parents who are registered sex offenders or who have been absent. They just don't refer to them as their parent.

Why is "rights" in quotes? I don't think you've even done a lot of research on this.