Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/7/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!wildbill From: wildbill@ucbvax.ARPA (William J. Laubenheimer) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: adoption and bio parents search Message-ID: <5447@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Tue, 12-Mar-85 03:19:11 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.5447 Posted: Tue Mar 12 03:19:11 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 23:20:24 EST References: <687@decwrl.UUCP> <1058@ihuxe.UUCP> Reply-To: wildbill@ucbvax.UUCP (William J. Laubenheimer) Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 21 Summary: > Why do adoptees look for their bio parents when they have >perfectly good parents... you know, those who were there when needed? > > Julie Hoff ihnp4!ihuxe!hoff I can't speak for myself (currently happy with the set I've got, thank you), but I can speak for a friend of mine. Approximately ten years after the death of his mother (his father had died previously), he began to feel that there was something lacking in his life: there was no family group of which he could consider himself a part. This, combined with a developing interest in genealogy and knowledge of his origins, led him to begin a search for his birthparents. It took him about a year. Both of the reintroductions were handled very carefully, and went off magnificently. He now has two families to consider himself a part of (birthmother and birthfather eventually married different people) -- and is considered a member of both families as well. He is quite close to his birthfather's family and very close to his birthmother's family. Bill Laubenheimer ----------------------------------------UC-Berkeley Computer Science ...Killjoy went that-a-way---> ucbvax!wildbill