Searching for Birth Family
Features
- A Letter From One Adoptive Parent to Other Adoptive Parents
- A Million Piece Jigsaw Puzzle
- A Teenage Adoptee's Letter to Her Birth Parents
- Access to Your Adoption Records:
- Adoption Ontario
- After the Adoption...
- An Adoptee Shares... Finding Me
- An Adoptee's Plea
- Chapter XIV : Rebirth and Catharsis
- Chapter XVI : Insights and Impact of My Search
- Choices in Searching: Intermediaries, Agency Searches, ISCs, Professional Searchers, Private Investi
- Christmas...A Blessed Reconnection
- Defining Moments
- Encouragement and Caution
- Finding Peace with Peggy
- Finding Your Roots
- Guide to Adoption Search & Reunion
- Help?
- Hitting A Brick Wall
- I'll Be Waiting
- If I Could Just Know Who I Am
- In Order to Get An Answer, You Need to Ask
- In the Name of the Father
- Introduction, and How to Start Searching
- Is 'Just Say No' Enough
- Life is Strange
- Lost and Found
- Lost My Brother
- Meaningless...Until Now
- No Reflection
- One Birthmother Still Searching
- Opening a Russian Adoption
- Requesting Adoption Search Information From the Paper Trail
- Roadblocks in Search
- Search and Respect in Intercountry Adoption
- Searching
- Searching for Birth Relatives
- Searching for Siblings
- SEARCHING: Initiating a Search (for adoptees):
- Shea's Search Series
- Some Closure
- The Barber May Know
- The Pain of Searching
- The Search of My Biological Father
- The Walls Came Down
- To My Birth Mother, With Love
- To People Seeking Birth Relations
- Tracing Your Roots
- Using a Paid Searcher
- Using A Search Consultant
- We Always Called You Jason
- What Are the Chances?
- What My Search has Meant to Me
- What You Need to Know About Search Angels
- When Your Mother Can't Be Found
- Who Am I?
- Who Owns The Rights to Information about an Adopted Child's History?
- Wishful Thinking Doesn't Make It, So DNA Testing A Must
A Letter From One Adoptive Parent to Other Adoptive Parents
The difficulty adoptive parents face when their children decide to search for their birth families; helping children know their adoptive parents or at least who they are can strengthen the relationship of the adopted family.... [more]
A Million Piece Jigsaw Puzzle
A social worker/ adult adoptee talks of searching.... [more]
A Teenage Adoptee's Letter to Her Birth Parents
A daughter writes an open letter to her birthparents, expressing thanks and love.... [more]
Access to Your Adoption Records:
Information on laws regarding obtaining access to your adoption records and how to go about doing so.... [more]
Adoption Ontario
Author shares the search story for both a sister (who was found) and now for a brother.... [more]
After the Adoption...
Author tells of her far-from-perfect adoption and her search now to find her birth family.... [more]
An Adoptee Shares... Finding Me
An adoptee shares the story of her search for her birthfamily and their reunification; also stresses the importance of her adoptive mother.... [more]
An Adoptee's Plea
An adult adoptee briefly tells her story and of her search, and also shares a poem she wrote.... [more]
Chapter XIV : Rebirth and Catharsis
Loving his mother even though he was never able to meet her, this adoptee tells his search story.... [more]
Chapter XVI : Insights and Impact of My Search
Courts may decree otherwise, but the one person who has no say is the child. Adoptive parents must realize that raising an adopted child is different and requires a different type of parenting.... [more]
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