US: How to Prepare When Adopted Children Are Ready to Meet Their Birth Parents (Includes audio)
People – November 18, 2021
Reunions like Richardson’s may be becoming more common among the estimated 7 million Americans who are adopted, with the advent of DNA testing kits and the increase in open adoptions (today, roughly 9 in 10 domestic adoptions are open). Yet the search for one’s birth parents and the reactions it can trigger can be emotionally fraught, filled with many ups and downs. Experts in adoptee/birth reunions have some suggestions for this process. And, advises Richardson, “Everybody’s experience is different.”
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