In the Interest of R.D. R.D.

’ WATERMAN, Justice.

Fifty years ago, a married ■ couple gave up their newborn daughter for adoption. The adoption records -were sealed.- Today, we must decide whether the juvenile court correctly construed and applied Iowa Code section 600.16A(2)(d) (2015) when it denied the adoptee’s application to unseal those records .to identify her biological parents.

A loving adoptive family raised the adoptee, but she struggles with depression, anxiety, and alcohol abuse. She presented evidence that her ignorance of her biological family’s history is a root cause of her mental health problems and that…