Never give up!
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After being raped in 1928, Minka Disbrow gave her daughter up for adoption, and thought of her every year on her birthday, for the next 77 years!
Her daughter Ruth Lee, started searching for her birthmother in her 70’s, and with her son’s help (and a court order) she found her.
A happy ending to a sad beginning.
Read the full article, “Mom reunites with biological child 77 years later” at USA Today.com.
Ok, calling this ruling a ‘conscience clause’ is ridiculous. This adoption clause is a thinly disguised rule to stop adoption by gay couples, and further stigmatize gay children.
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Catholic Charities would rather leave a child in foster care for life, rather than place them in a loving home? Is that Christian?
The concience clause should require all agencies to do better background checks, and home studies. Too many children are placed into abusive homes.
Wake up legislators. I would rather have a loving gay family, than an abusive one.
After a lifetime spent apart, as adoptees raised in different families, non-identical twins Emilie Falk and Lin Backman are re-united. Read their touching story at Dawn.com.
My name is V.L. Brunskill. I am an adoptee, search angel, and a writer. I live near beautiful Savannah, Georgia, and have known my truth since 1991. After a seven year search, I found my birthmother, and after another five years, my birthfather.
I moved south to be closer to my birth family. However, I only retain a relationship with my birth mother. I moved my adoptive mother with me to Georgia.
The decision to search for one’s birth family is wrought with emotion, and the search is a twisting road of mystery, disappointment, elation and wonder.
Finding is a rebirth, and I have found that most of adoptees spend a myriad of time dreaming of reunion, but very little time preparing for the truth. I have helped many adoptees, by sharing the way my search unfolded (in the days before the wonderful Web), and I hope to help many more.
This blog will share reunion stories from the news, my experiences, offer advice and help for those searching, and hopefully shed new light on being a member of the adoption triangle. The triangle includes adoptees, birth parents, and adoptee parents.
I will also share books, sites, and other resources as I discover them, in hopes that it will ease your path to wholeness.
I recently completed a novel titled Waving Backwards and will share the path to publication with you as well.
Welcome and happy reading!
V.L.
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