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Gibbon · 70-79, M
That I was adopted. I found out when I was 45 against my mother's wishes who had passed away because a big mouth rumor mongering cousin who couldn't keep her mouth shut. My adopted parents are shown as my natural parents on my birth certificate because of the way things were done then. I was taken home from the hospital I was born in. There is no record of my actual parents and I really don't care. I couldn't have asked for better parents but since my big mouth cousin is not blood she is welcome to go to hell. Breaking my mother's will she has no idea how that made me review specific incidents and by whom in my life.
LadyInBlack · 18-21, F
@Gibbon I'm sorry you had to go through that.
Almost all adoptions these days are open, meaning that the biological family has some sort of connection/communication with the adoptive family because we recognized that it is the right of the child to at least know their biological background.
Also because this is not something you can hide these days with DNA tests like 23andme, ancestry..etc being so readily available. So most adopted children these days I've seen always knew they're adopted, just like how they just know their name.
Almost all adoptions these days are open, meaning that the biological family has some sort of connection/communication with the adoptive family because we recognized that it is the right of the child to at least know their biological background.
Also because this is not something you can hide these days with DNA tests like 23andme, ancestry..etc being so readily available. So most adopted children these days I've seen always knew they're adopted, just like how they just know their name.
Gibbon · 70-79, M
@LadyInBlack I only know, according to an aunt I asked, that I was born to a young French Canadian couple in the same hospital my mother was having a procedure. For whatever reason the couple gave me up and I was adopted at the time and my parents recorded as my natural parents. That's all I know. I never took interest in DNA testing or trying to find out more about them. It's not important to me and won't change anything.