Articles Book III - Pg 300-560 (Birthparents) - triadoption

. MWilhR WHO GAVE UP CtlILD: Dear A Real blother, Tool Eighteen year# ago, I gave
birth to a son out of wedlock. 1 war only17, an imapture'l7. I carried my
, child for.nine month8 and liatensd to the whiapera and looks of :disgust. When
my child was born, I wanted more than anything to keep him, but becauae of .my
deep love for hiin; I thought,of him. 1 had no one to care for us. I didn't
, wont to give'him a life with everyone looking down on both of us. I thought
by putting him up for adoption I could give him.a mother and father who would
love him as much a8 1,did.i ,
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I am now happily married; with fivechildren, one of them adopted. . I still
find myself thinking of the boy. I wonder what his patent8 are like. I wonder
if he'a'happy? 'I wonder'if'he'a on drug# and does he need help? God, if only
I c.ould know if he1# all'right and happy. I wonder if he knownwhy I gave him .
away? Sometime# I see a hmltpi boy around tho age of 18 and wonder if that could .
be him. You can't.sign away a mother'# love.
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1 I would like, td tell' you about my'adopted son, who is six yedr,s old. We have
discuaaed with him'how we adopted him, but on three occasions he has asked aboclt
his real qother; Ile appaara to be a.recure and happy child. ".
Because we love' him, we allow him to expreae hi; feelings and let, him know that
, he doesn't hurt ua by doing sg. I explain to him thit he is too young to sedrch,
'but wheri.he ghte older; if he still feels he would like to find his.biologica1
'.. mother, then we will mearchfor her together. Thia aeems to iptiafy nomething
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Adoytion is heart~che for many unwed mother,, unanswered questions for many
adopted children, bewilderment and hurt for many wonderful adopted parent8 when
the child Bays that he or she would like 'to know who their parents are.
An abortion would\be a mimple aolution for mapy.
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Dear Biolo~lcal Mom - I standing of sltuatians liko:
also nm n~blological mathcr ' thlsi , . .,. .
of a child who was ndoplcd. ,' Any help you can gtvo :
I need help find. mc nbout ngcnc~ca to con- .
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AdopUve patents who feel aa you. do kill ilnd. 11 helplul
to mad "In Sdm ot OH~lns," thb erparlences of adopted
ing the right way to tact to funnel lnformatlon W!Q* by John fhlloth Beam hus, Boston.
my ldcntlly known to my. us wul bcgrcht'~'!p- 1 m mother O! Byear-old #rl. 1 ho when she
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m son vjhcn he comes of ngc prcciatcd;, .
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' wiU want to conla he. I have gpt
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fmm her blrh along Wllb a lamll m, birthday cards dlorg for
and may rant W find nc ' I must i t n s ~ lhave t ~ . ~ ~ ~ nr. ud a bwk O* my
and hls brolhcr whom 11 .no Intcntlon of lntcrruptiqg
fee& aht gihg her up
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kcpt with me. ,
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my lie .OW ' AdopUve Pamnta should kalk thit lnformatlon on
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