Adoption Follow-up: Message to Parents of Adoptees

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I needed my counselor to help convince my mother that a relationship with my birth mother could be a very healthy thing for me. My mother’s initial response after I met her (my birth mother) and indicated I wanted to stay in touch was “why would you want to know a woman who carried you around like a baby in a test-tube for 9 months?” I was shocked at such a response, … Read More

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Adoption — At 50 years old I still have residual feelings

I wrote the following in response to someone’s comments in an adoption group I am a member of on Linked In, commenting on how adoption affects people throughout their lives in some cases:

I, too am adopted and have reunited with my birth mother — who ended up marrying my birth father and having two more kids –so I have a full brother and a full sister. My birth father died before I found them. … Read More

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