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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
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Posted: Tue Mar 12 03:19:11 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 23:20:24 EST
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Reply-To: wildbill@ucbvax.UUCP (William J. Laubenheimer)
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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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