Aibu to think my parents are still biological

[Dontknowwhoiamrightnow]

Last week I urgently needed my birth certificate. I couldn't find it, so ordered a copy.
A few days later the post arrives and there is a letter to say that the information I provided for the birth certificate didn't match, but they checked some other files and the certificate is enclosed.
It's an ADOPTION certificate!!! I have an adoption certificate.
I had no idea I had even been adopted!!
Backstory-: I lived with my "mum and dad". I had my mum's maiden name at birth.
My parents told me that my name was changed to my dad's surname when they got married two years after birth.
I was told this was so that we could all have the same name.
This was In the 1980's.
My mum does look like me and my kids, so I think she is my biological mum.
AIBU to think that my parents are my biological parents and they became my adopters, just to change my name OR is it reasonable to think that my dad is not my real dad.
I know, I'm clutching at straws, it seems more than likely he's not my real dad.... How do I make sense of it all? Is there really any chance they are both my bio parents and the adoption was just to make me legitimate?
I'm in bits right now and don't know what to do xxx

If you put no dad on birth cert you can add him later and its not adoption. If your looking to change the person down as the dad you would have to adopt (unless there was a way to correct parents name). Just changing a surname isnt adoption, I did it for 2 of my kids and it just changed when I reregistered them.

I have both copies of my birth cert, in mams maiden name and dads. To keep the cert you just "lose" it.

Thats weird he had to adopt her as my daughters dad was put on her birth cert when she was 2. Not adop cert.

If you add dad on later you dont need to adopt. You just go and add him on. Ive done it.

Yes, but she still deserves to know. It may not be traumatic at all

You could add dad on to birth cert without adoption. Someone was misadvised. I did it in 1994. Technically putting your child up for adoption isnt going to result in her being removed, its the process to adopt that makes it sound like that.

If no father on cert you can add him later so this isnt correct. Ive done it.

It could be either. Many children are the product of rape for example. She deserves to know but knowing may be devastating so always best to be prepared.

Its not uncommon, my two youngest were born 'out of wedlock'. they have their fathers surname, and his name on the birth certificate my details are my maiden name (and I believe my previous married name) , but if we were to later marry, they could have their details altered to show both parents with the same surname, removing the theoretical risk of being called a bastard. But this would still technically be an adoption.
I am adopted and have my certificate of adoption, giving my adoptive parents names (and my adoptive mums maiden name) and now I also have my original birth certificate which gives my birth mothers name and no fathers name.

Maybe birth dad wasn't around and rather than stepdad pretending to be her birth dad they were honest that's why it was classed as adoption, just a thought

There's still something fishy about the elaborate story about the whole family being away and mum giving birth at great aunts house, obviously it might have been miles away from mum's home & she'd gone out of the area to have the baby. Having said all that, this is the OP's life story so I hope she finds out the truth xx

If their father is on the birth certificate and you married him then they could be re-registered. That wouldn’t be an adoption

@Dontknowwhoiamrightnow easiest thing is to ask /talk to your parents

Have you do this yet

Hi.
I now have a copy of my original birth certificate. My Mum was listed as the only parent.
I have also spoken to my parents today.
They said it was difficult to change my surname and adding my Father to the birth certificate, as they were not married when I was born. They were advised to adopt me!
My Dad therefore 'adopted' me, my Mum apparently had to adopt me too as she would have lost parental rights.
This was in 1983, so I guess things were different back then. (I don't know)
They said they are both my biological parents.
Apart from get a DNA test, there's not much else I can do, except believe them.

Thanks for the update. It seems a strange arrangement but there have been other posters saying similar things happened to them.

It is something that was commonplace back then (even though not always legally necessary) so it’s not totally out of reach that they’re telling you the truth

My partner added his name to his daughter's birth certificate many years after her birth. She was born in 1985.

My DH was born in 1982 and his stepdad wanted to adopt him in 1988 (his dad died in 1983). His mum was told she would need to adopt him too or she would lose her rights and because they were unmarried it complicated it. I know in your case your dad is your dad but the circumstances are similar in that neither man was on the birth certificate so both had to adopt to get parental rights. They are telling you the truth.

Op I'd 100% believe their explanation. It makes the most sense especially since you were only 2 when they married.

I would believe them OP.

Also, the long birth certificate which could have listed your Dad cost extra. Your Mum was probably skint!

I know someone who adopted her son in the 90s when she married.

Her husband adopted her son which meant that she did also.

I'm totally on the fence. The explanation is plausible but I'm the type of person who would be niggled by this forever. I'd need the DNA test to move on.

"Hi.
I now have a copy of my original birth certificate. My Mum was listed as the only parent.
I have also spoken to my parents today.
They said it was difficult to change my surname and adding my Father to the birth certificate, as they were not married when I was born. They were advised to adopt me!
My Dad therefore 'adopted' me, my Mum apparently had to adopt me too as she would have lost parental rights.
This was in 1983, so I guess things were different back then. (I don't know)
They said they are both my biological parents.
Apart from get a DNA test, there's not much else I can do, except believe them."

@Dontknowwhoiamrightnow

I'm really sorry to tell you this but that isn't true. I was born in 1979 and my parents were not married. I was an affair baby. My father was married to somebody else when I was born. I was given my mums maiden name and then when I was a year old they got married and a new birth certificate was issued in my dad's name. I know this is true as I've seen both birth certificates and when my own parents divorced when I was a teenager, I reverted to my mums maiden name as I thought that that name was mine to use as I had a birth certificate. But when I applied for student loans at 18 I had to legally change my name as the original BC was null and void .