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Originally Posted by
Warrenite84
I am not familiar with the adoption process.
"is he still alive?
Yes, yes, he is."
I have a cousin who was adopted out at her birth. She became a nurse, married, had four children and grandchildren. She grew up in a wealthy and loving adoptive home. As an adult, she was told by the adoption agency who her biological parents were. They had married two years after she was born. She once parked in front of her biological parents' house but did not have the nerve to knock on the door and introduce herself. I was told that story by her daughter.
I have another successful cousin who discovered that he had a different father than he thought when he read his mother's youthful diary after his mother died. His maternal grandmother would not let her daughter marry my uncle. His mother then married another man who claimed the baby as his own.
A third cousin corrected me when I was lamenting that her brother had no children prior to being killed. She corrected me and sent me a photo of her now grown up niece who is now an artist with exhibitions.
DNA turned up another 'first or second cousin". I wrote the lady but did not receive a response. Maybe she didn't know that the father who had done all the work of raising her wasn't her biological father. Or maybe she was just curious who her biological family is.
I am thankful to the women who didn't abort my cousins and to men who stepped up as step fathers to get them raised. Adoption isn't the only alternative to abortion. They made it possible for the world to have another nurse, industrial safely engineer and an artist.