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MySpace Mom Finds Long Lost Son
Thirty-two years after giving her son up for adoption, Terri Fuller, a mom from Layton, UT, found him in the most unusual way, thanks to a simple typo. Fuller gave up her son, Rustin Hawver, when he was just two and she "was young and just barely ...
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Boy kidnapped as baby returned to parents as teenager
A sixteen-year-old Russian boy, who was kidnapped as a toddler, is set to be returned to his birth mother. According to authorities, a DNA test has confirmed the child was the one kidnapped when he was just one and 1/2 years old from the mainly ...A photo, a ring, and an incredible discovery
On her wedding day almost 20 years ago, Tran Thi Kham learned that the woman who raised her was not her birth mother, but her aunt. On that day, she was told the story of her birth parents, who fell in love after meeting in Hong Kong in 1967. Their ...Man reunites with birth mother at work
Like a really sweet but totally unbelievable movie plot, Steve Flaig got what he wanted most for Christmas: his birth mother. Since his 18th birthday, Flaig has been searching for the woman who gave him up for adoption as an infant. With the blessing ...
The search for the birth mother
If you were adopted, would you want to meet your birth mother? Would you want a relationship with her? What about if your child were adopted--would you want her to meet her birth mother? Do you think she would want to? There are myriad questions ...Man undergoes gastric bypass in order to adopt child
When a Missouri judge prevented Gary and Cindy Stocklaufer from adopting a child they had been caring for since birth, it appeared that weight was the issue. Specifically, Gary 's 558 pounds. The judge ruled that 4-month-old Max, who is related to ...Birthmother finds daughter on MySpace
It's been said that Web 2.0 social networking sites like MySpace and Friendster bring people together, but this story really brings the point across. Apparently, a Wisconsin woman who placed her baby daughter for adoption in 1985 found her child on ...
Getting a perspective on what other parties in the adoption process are thinking
I ran across this piece the other day written by an attorney who assumes the roles of all the respective parties in an adoption--the child, the birthmother, the biological father, and the adoptive parent. She writes a couple of paragraphs in each of ...
How do adoptive parents really feel when their children search for their birthparents?
Whenever I read stories like this, I get very mixed feelings about them. The story talks about a man who reunited with his birthmother after being apart for nearly 40 years. By reading the article, it's a pretty amazing story and it appears by all ...
Mothers of the heart, we salute you
Tomorrow is Birthmother's Day. Did you know that? If you are adopted, what do you do to celebrate it? If you are a birthmother? As Mother's Day approaches, I am feeling rather self-conscious about all of the attention and horn-tooting being devoted ...
"Dear Abby, should we sever contact with our daughter's birthmother?"
From our Tipline: Elizabeth turned us on to a Dear Abby letter published this weekend, where a mom struggles with whether to keep her daughter's open adoption open. Her daughter, who is 14, becomes despondent after visits and ...
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