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 social worker/ adult adoptee talks of searching.... [more]
A daughter writes an open letter to her birthparents, expressing thanks and love.... [more]
Information on laws regarding obtaining access to your adoption records and how to go about doing so.... [more]
Author shares the search story for both a sister (who was found) and now for a brother.... [more]
Author tells of her far-from-perfect adoption and her search now to find her birth family.... [more]
An adoptee shares the story of her search for her birthfamily and their reunification; also stresses the importance of her adoptive mother.... [more]
An adult adoptee briefly tells her story and of her search, and also shares a poem she wrote.... [more]
Loving his mother even though he was never able to meet her, this adoptee tells his search story.... [more]
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]