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The Search for Birthparents

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Articles, research, and personal stories offer insight to adoptive parents with concerns about the search for birth parents.

Advice
An adoptive mom feels abandoned after the reunion of her child and birthparents. Here's some sensitive advice from author Carol Bird.

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An Adoption Trilogy
Three women affected by one adoption have interwoven their lives and their stories, from Salon Magazine.

Dear Mom and Dad
In a letter to her parents, adoptee Tina Musso explains her reasons for searching.

"My Mothers, Myself"
Journalist Colleen Van Tassell's own search gives a revealing look at all sides of this question.

Our Daughter's Russian Family
Parents of international adoptees are often able to locate and develop a relationship with their children's birth families. One parent describes her quest, the reasons behind it, and how she feels it will help her daughter.

Search and Respect in Intercountry Adoption
Adoptive parent Lizette Biel shares her thoughts on birth parents and their countries - both worthy of respect and understanding, and important in the lives of children.

"That's My Boy"
An adoptive mother struggles to set aside her doubts about adoptee search for birth parents. From BabyCenter.

Why Adoptees Search
Adoptees search for birth parents and other birth family members for a myriad of reasons at different times. These articles offer some insight into those reasons.

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