Late Discovery

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Please Don't Lie to Your Children!

When I was fifty-one years old, after all members of my family had died, I learned for the first time that I was adopted. Whispered comments between adults remembered from early childhood,l... [more]

Identity Theft and Recovery:

"Our law emphasizes the right of the child. It demands that children be told the truth, that they are adopted. Sometimes we think it cruel to tell a person the truth (first as a child,... [more]

Tell Them

I am an adult adoptee who was found by my birth mother when I was 32 years old. I didn't find out I was adopted until I was 18 years old. A family friend who had left the town we lived in f... [more]

Cole Baby 1961

When I learned I was adopted, my world was turned upside-down. It was a few months before my fortieth birthday. A "long-lost" relative found me through the Internet and shared the... [more]

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