Even now when I show my oldest pictures of her birth parents and when we talk about her birth parents, I don't know if it's the right thing to do.
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How has the process of meeting your birth parents been?
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Mobley reunited with her birth parents soon after Williams' arrest.
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He returned in 2013 to look for his birth parents.
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It may be tricky to navigate the topic of birth parents if you are an adoptive parent, but new mom Jessica Cunha says that she won't be hiding her son's birth parents from him.
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But now Louganis is developing a relationship with his birth parents.
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He was just three months old when his birth parents abandoned him.
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Finding your birth parents is already probably such a big thing already….
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The goal of fostering is reunification with birth parents once they get better.
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This includes giving birth parents up to 60 days to reconsider their decision.
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She met with her birth parents, Craig Aiken and Shanara Mobley, last weekend.
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My birth father declined to meet me (my birth parents are not together).
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For example, we provide comprehensive fertility benefits, memberships and discounts for child care services, and flexible parental leave programs that provide birth parents up to 20 weeks of paid leave and non-birth parents up to six weeks of parental leave.
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We never hear Woman talk about her own birth parents — because they never existed.
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On a literal level, Alice's birth parents have been totally absent from her life.
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There will be a moment that my sons feel sad about their birth parents.
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Because family visitation is canceled, she can't see her birth parents or older siblings.
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CNN: Were you ever nervous about Grace growing too close to her birth parents?
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Birth parents Ryan Holets' dedication didn't end when the adoption of Hope was finalized.
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His birth parents lived far from the hospital and were raising their other young children.
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The birth parents were forced to give up their "twins" to their respective genetic parents.
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Adopted at three years old with his younger brother, he never knew his birth parents.
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Too often, birth parents are overlooked or dismissed by parents looking to foster or adopt.
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If that wasn't reason enough to celebrate, Starbucks is extending benefits to "non-birth parents," too.
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In a really beautiful turn of events, you're currently in San Diego meeting your birth parents.
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The babies had just been separated from their birth parents, most oftentimes due to drug use.
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Gar had a rough life, losing first his birth parents and then, temporarily, his adoptive mother.
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Jobs, who was adopted, shared the emotional process he had gone through finding his own birth parents.
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This is unsurprising, since those who adopt tend to be more powerful and richer than birth parents.
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After his birth parents separated, Jenkins, his mother and two sisters, Kaiya and Kelci, moved to Baltimore.
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We never hear Woman talk about her own birth parents though, and that's because they never existed.
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But South Korean laws block them from obtaining their full birth records without their birth parents' consent.
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And government adoption files are often falsified, incomplete or missing, making birth parents impossible to track down.
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He was given up for adoption by his birth parents and reared by Willy and Bertha Jones.
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Rebeckah was adopted last year after the U.S.C.B.P. concluded that they could not locate her birth parents.
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We adopted a Native American child many years ago who had been relinquished by both birth parents.
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Jo (Camilla Luddington) finally sought help for her depression after learning the truth about her birth parents.
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Vanessa McGrady often talks about homelessness with her adopted daughter, Grace, 8, whose birth parents are homeless.
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She helped adoptees find their birth parents, and volunteered her services to be bid on at silent auctions.
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And they want her birth parents, Crystal Champ and Tom Key, to have a place in their life.
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There is little evidence that birth parents were actually promised that their names would be kept permanently hidden.
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I don't know much of my son's (Maddox) birth parents, but I believe they would've gone through this war.
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In a statement, the agency blamed fewer potential birth parents than at any point in its 35-year history.
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Under the new policy, non-birth parents (partners, adoptive parents, and foster parents) will receive six weeks fully paid.
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It's not all cattiness, though — the reunion will also address Vanderpump's son Max's quest to find his birth parents.
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Adoptees and birth parents are eligible to submit DNA for this database, and many do, but not nearly enough.
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As the children grow and mature, they will wonder about their birth parents and imagine what they are like.
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Part of the issue, also, is that birth parents don't always use services available to them from the agency.
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But others take on even more ambitious projects — like one person who helped reunite people with their birth parents.
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Others, including people adopted as children or conceived with donor sperm, can resolve longstanding questions about their birth parents.
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That means that to be a potential match, a donor's birth parents must be of one of those ethnicities.
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Starbucks also announced higher wages and paid parental leave for up to six weeks, including for non-birth parents.
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I think it is important for (most) adopted kids to know at least a little about their birth parents.
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In 1984, he started seeking his birth parents and identified the people he believed to be his mother and father.
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The first, which runs in fragments throughout the episode, centers on teen Randall's attempt to track down his birth parents.
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She immediately wanted to uncover the identity of her birth parents, and has been trying to find them ever since.
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Cross-fostering is when "baby animals are separated from their birth parents and raised by surrogates," according to National Geographic.
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Seeking out her birth parents and finding answers has been a "centering" experience, she said, despite the pain and disappointment.
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But for the millions of adoptees born before that time, the identity of their birth parents remains a troubling mystery.
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We were fortunate enough to meet and spend time with our son's birth parents and be present at his birth.
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After years of legal battles and meetings with Gisele's birth parents, the two officially became mother and daughter last October.
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Airbnb, a private company, gives birth mothers 22 paid weeks of maternity leave, while non-birth parents get 10 weeks.
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When children cannot remain with their birth parents, the comfort of a grandparent or an aunt eases the trauma of separation.
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After adopting kids, parents are faced with the decision of what kind of relationship to have with their children's birth parents.
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"Ohanian called for a "federal bill that mandates quality paid family leave for everyone — birth parents, adoptive parents and caregivers alike.
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My parents taught me to walk with my chin head high, but still I always wondered: 'Who are my birth parents?
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My spinal cord injury occurred when I was one year old due to a domestic violence situation with my birth parents.
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Instead, Cryer said she got her "sense of accomplishment" from an ambitious activity: tracking down acquaintances' never-before-met birth parents.
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As a child, he was given up for adoption and had no contact with his birth parents until his late 30s.
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I mean, the orphan who doesn't know anything about his birth parents—who is he to claim that knowing is better?
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Grace has seen the tent where her birth parents live, but it's hard to talk about the reasons they became homeless.
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"To the government, calling out the party for not being Marxist is like children openly denouncing their birth parents," she said.
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Spokeo runs a grant program called "Spokeo Angels," for people who help adopted adults find their birth parents through online search tools.
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All told, the two women found two additional sisters (one full, one half), five half siblings and both of their birth parents.
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While an estimated 1,000 adoptees have submitted their DNA for matching on GEDMatch, only 33 birth parents have taken tests with 325Kamra.
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Then, in the fall of 2013, I learned that my daughter's birth parents had become homeless through a brutal combination of factors.
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In my research, I've concluded that concerns for birth parents' privacy are overemphasized, particularly when considering the well-being of the adoptee.
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These fees typically cover a birth mother's medical expenses, legal representation for adoptive and birth parents, court fees, social workers and more.
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When his birth parents decided to take him back to Nigeria at age 8, Akinnuoye-Agbaje wasn't accepted because he only spoke English.
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I've no memory of my birth parents and there are conflicting reports as to where and when I was born, and to whom.
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Amanda Jo Jones was a newborn when her birth parents wrapped her in a blanket and abandoned her near an Atlanta mall, Yahoo!
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Through his ability of sight, Bran went back in time to witness the marriage between Jon's birth parents, Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen.
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DePrince's birth parents died from starvation when she was as a child, and her uncle sent her to an orphanage because of her vitiligo.
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In international adoptions, birth parents were more likely to be erased altogether, as adoption agencies sometimes wrongly claimed that they were dead or dying.
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Why did I have to look the way I did—like a foreigner; like my birth parents, two people I would never even meet?
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And if birth parents decide not to have a relationship with the people looking for them, that's OK, the children have to respect that.
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Louganis's birth parents met in Hawaii, but his biological mother moved to San Diego while pregnant and Louganis entered the foster care system at birth.
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His mother, who died before the first Profit episode even aired, had long asked him not to go back and look for his birth parents.
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The investigative method had once been used almost exclusively by genealogists helping people trace their family history or find birth parents or long-lost relatives.
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The bio says Petersen has spent nearly 15 years providing counsel for adoptive and birth parents in hundreds of adoption cases since beginning his practice.
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But she has little to no empathy for the birth parents or family of the children she and her husband thought they would permanently adopt.
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I know people who, before turning to surrogacy, tried to adopt only to have the baby's birth parents change their minds at the last minute.
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The memoir eventually culminates in the story of finally meeting her birth parents, at a time when she was having a daughter of her own.
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It's a bit wild, the fact that you finally connect with your birth parents at the same time you're having a child of your own.
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Catholic Children's Aid wrote that my birth parents' relationship was of a "short duration," with them meeting in Europe while my birth mother vacationed abroad.
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One thing we like about our agency is that they let the birth parents pick their adoptive family when they are making an adoption plan.
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The questions come often from adoptees looking to find the identities of their birth parents, or those left in the dark about their ancestral lineage.
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But some of the story lines have obvious plot holes or inconsistent details — like Phoebe's birth parents disappearing, or the characters aging at different rates.
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I ask what she thinks about our quest for the note, hoping she'll acknowledge that words from her birth parents, few as they were, mattered.
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The process to terminate parental rights will be determined in dependency court, and birth parents have the right to contest the termination, officials have said.
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Instead, she wants her son to know that he has different birth parents and, more importantly, she wants him to know that they still love him.
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It also expanded its parental leave policy for cafe workers, giving non-birth parents up to six weeks of paid leave when welcoming a new child.
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She didn't try to find her birth parents until she was married and pregnant, with concerns about how her family medical history might affect her child.
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Starbucks also expanded its parental leave policy for cafe workers, giving non-birth parents up to six weeks of paid leave when welcoming a new child.
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The novel sets up the story of Owen Johnson, who is out to learn about his birth parents, and whose story continues with the comic book.
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Since the undercover operation was exposed, many Hicks Babies have desperately searched for their biological families, yet decades later, are still looking for their birth parents.
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But after her own reunion, Ms. Slaton offered this emphatic plea to birth parents who've refused to meet their adult child face-to-face: Please reconsider.
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"Jack, we talked about this," Rebecca says to her husband who suggests the idea of beginning the search for Randall's birth parents while getting ready for bed.
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Born with spina bifida, the corrective surgery would cost the average Chinese worker up to two years' salary, creating a heart-breaking situation for his birth parents.
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We also talk about Audrey and Vernon, her birth parents, and I show her many photos of them because I don't want them to be a mystery.
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The depiction we often see in the media of people who were adopted is that they feel unwanted or unloved by their birth parents — particularly their mothers.
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Was she really abandoned by her birth parents as she had been told, or was she an orphan as her Chilean passport and her adoption documents stated?
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Mr. Montoya Carlotto, a musician, had grown up not knowing his true identity or that his birth parents had been killed in a death camp in 1978.
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Other rules stated that our son could search for his birth parents with our permission after he was 18; after 25, he could search without our permission.
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George reached out to his newly discovered half-brother, Thomas, and found out he was adopted at birth and had spent years looking for his birth parents.
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In Nicole Kidman's new movie, Lion, she plays an emotional, and supportive, adoptive mother who helps her son, played by Dev Patel, locate his birth parents in India.
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In another interview with Town & Country, Kidman called her upcoming movie Lion, which is about a boy's search for his birth parents, a "love letter" to her kids.
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She believes she was taken from her birth parents to be assimilated, but acknowledged that like many, she came from a family where there was neglect and alcoholism.
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While it is clear that Lemonis' birth mother was from Syria, it is unclear how he ended up at the orphanage or whether his birth parents were married.
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He also embarks on a search for his birth parents, a towering challenge in a country where many records were destroyed during its 15-year long civil war.
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He was just three-months old in 2600, when the orphanage says his birth parents left him outside a fertility clinic in Xinyang, in central China's Henan Province.
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From 19683 to 2015, fewer than 15 percent of adoptees who asked to reunite with their birth parents were able to do so, according to Korean government figures.
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My sons' birth parents are an invisible but essential part of our own riff on the American family; they're the ones who made us a family at all.
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Not to her birth parents, Bella had learned, but with her nanny, who had received a handsome sum of money for them to settle comfortably in the countryside.
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Anyone who wants to find their birth parents, or learn more about their ancestors, no longer has to rely on sperm banks and digging through decades-old obituaries.
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The road to recovery will be long and uncertain, but Ryan Holets and his family say they vow to support Hope's birth parents every step of the way.
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Pam Slaton has been running an investigative genealogy service, based in Lumberton, N.J., to help adoptees find and connect with their birth parents for more than 20 years.
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The Daily Mail notes that Jolie likely didn't know Zahara's biological mother was alive until 2007, as she'd previously been told that Zahara's birth parents had died from AIDS.
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We also see a young Randall sending off an ad looking for his birth parents, and then finding a letter back from someone, setting up a place to meet.
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You could use this data to track down your birth parents, or to discover you're descended from ancient royalty, or to find out if you're prone to various diseases.
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In the grand tradition of prestige TV, it featured overarching plots about Finn's search for his birth parents, or the recurring threat of the fearsome undead sorcerer the Lich.
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The biggest obstacles to finding more matches are the databases themselves: There is no single consolidated database widely available both to Korean birth parents and to overseas Korean adoptees.
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We got a glimpse of his iconic wheelchair in episode 7, and Hawley says they plan to address the mystery of David's birth parents at some point in the show.
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Of the 15 foster children Cyndi and Jesse have taken in over the last decade, 13 were there because one or both of their birth parents struggled with drug addiction.
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They work toward open adoptions, where the children and their birth parents have contact in some form throughout childhood, and they tend to focus on the adoption of newborn babies.
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Though his mother and father were open with him about his adoption, unanswered questions about his birth parents led to a tumultuous childhood for the future five-time Olympic medalist.
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A longing for childhood permeates many works by Vivier, who was adopted at 3, never knew his birth parents, and thought of himself as something of an unceasingly isolated youngster.
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Adoption experts say first-time meetings between adult adoptees and their birth parents are becoming more common among the more than five million American adults who were adopted as children.
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Without seeing earlier episodes, it is hard to fully grasp the magnitude of Katonya's situation, but once she's visited by the ghosts of her birth parents, there's almost no need.
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Kamiyah has also been reconnecting with her birth parents, Shanara Mobley and Craig Aiken, but has professed sadness that the only mother she ever knew faces years in a prison cell.
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In the other, more mysterious, corner is Rafael, who was dogged by the question of who his birth parents are for years before he decided finding out wouldn't be worth it.
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She doesn't know much about who her birth parents are, but she knows that her mother was 21 when she got pregnant and that she wasn't ready to have a baby.
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There were an estimated 300,000 adoptions between 1940 and 2015, and only 558 birth parents asked to have their names redacted, according to New Jersey's Office of Vital Statistics and Registry.
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Tusla took over the St Patrick's Guild files in 2016 and discovered, while attempting to help adopted children trace their birth parents, that some of the births had been fraudulently registered.
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A British man's search to find his birth parents after he was abandoned 33 years ago in a London airport came to a bittersweet end as he learned his mother had died.
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Lion is inspired by Saroo's memoir, which documents the years after he was separated from his birth parents in India and then adopted by Sue and her husband John, an Australian couple.
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Hollyhock, who awkwardly refers to BoJack as her "anonymous sperm guy," doesn't expect meeting her birth parents to fundamentally change her life, and instead only seeks answers her adoptive parents can't provide.
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By 2017, Press had been a hobbyist genealogist for about a decade, most recently helping adoptees find their birth parents, and she thought she knew a way to identify Sue Grafton's Jane Doe.
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He didn't know how many birth parents were involved or where BlueJay and his brothers were currently living, despite the fact that they've been in their current homes for the past nine months.
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We see her struggling in the wake of her reunion with her birth parents: shying away from touch, flinching at the sight of Claire's new wedding ring, disconnected from life at Fraser's Ridge.
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She had to move from fear and shame to anger over what she learned about her birth parents and the way her birth mom pulled away from her when she wanted comfort and understanding.
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He opens up about how he felt split as a child, and we also see a flashback to his siblings talking to him about wanting to find his birth parents when they were young.
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Be a foster child's advocate A Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) is an authorized volunteer who gets to know the foster child, the foster parents, birth parents, and anyone else in the child's life.
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He gave examples of schools that have set alerts in their facial recognition systems on birth parents who have been barred by court order — or other legal processes — to make contact with a child.
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She and her husband adopted five special needs children through St. Vincent, and they continue to rely on them for counseling for the children and other support services, such as dealing with birth parents.
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Nicole Kidman has said that her work in Lion, in which she plays the mom of an adopted boy (Dev Patel) seeking his birth parents, was inspired by her own experience as an adoptive mother.
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Michael's daughters, who have lost their birth parents and their adoptive mother, must believe their father is innocent in order to preserve some sense that their lives don't exist in a complete vacuum of chaos.
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The Swaffords have helped Kalib and Brandon deal with the long-term cognitive effects that Cyndi and Jesse believe stem from opioids they were exposed to and the trauma of separation from their birth parents.
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But the couple who raised her, Joan and James Walters, of Akron, Ohio, were falsely listed as birth parents to both Blasio and her older sister, Michelle, who also came from the same Georgia clinic.
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But it doesn't take a doctor of psychology to recognize that watching your childhood home and birth parents get wiped out by a droid army might inform some deep-seated issues with all droids everywhere.
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When Hollis recounts waiting for the birth parents of one child to show up, her attitude of superiority and willful ignorance is almost breathtaking: How do you keep taking babies to see parents who aren't parenting?
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Born in 1960, I was put up for adoption because my birth parents, a black father and white mother, had seen the ways societal reactions to their relationship were affecting their young son, my oldest sibling.
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Abandoned by his birth parents, disfigured by a caretaker, and shipped to Canada for what would essentially become a life behind bars—Shayne was as much a victim of his circumstances as he was manipulator of them.
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The answer is coming in May with Fire Power, a martial-arts-inspired series about Owen Johnson, who was adopted as a child and goes on a mission as an adult to learn about his birth parents.
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Davenport, who was given up for adoption as a boy, went on a Washington area Facebook page set up to help adoptees find their birth parents, and a kind stranger from the community helped them in their search.
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She dies at the end of the film, but not before giving birth to the... ...Seed of Chucky: Glen/Glenda seeks out his birth parents(???) in Hollywood, where they've been living for years and planning their return to humanity.
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"I have done some DNA testing and have decided to respect the privacy of those involved who wish not to communicate with me," she wrote on Facebook when asked if she would be interested in finding her birth parents.
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Watts, who currently lives in St. Louis with his wife and their 11-year-old daughter, said he was especially motivated to find his birth parents after losing a child in 2013, who was born prematurely at 27 weeks.
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Additionally, a system of tax incentives that subsidize individual adoptions, short windows for birth parents to revoke their consent, and sealed birth certificates that prevent adoptees from learning their biological history reinforce this divide in favor of the adoptive parents.
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He is our all-star, knockout boy who deserves everything that we can possibly give him, even if that means sucking up our own feelings about him having birth parents out there somewhere that might fill this void that he's feeling.
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It cycles through messages from a man searching for his birth parents, an adopted pair of interracial brothers, a teenager coming out to his mom and a transgender person talking about what transition has meant for his relationship with his parents.
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A little girl was left onstage singing on her own, perhaps a symbol of the isolated youngster who Vivier — who was adopted at 3 years old and never knew his birth parents — always felt he was, and for whom he composed.
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The process to terminate parental rights is determined in dependency court, and birth parents have the right to contest the termination, Amy Heilman, director of foster care and adoption at the Children's Bureau in Los Angeles, told CNN last week.
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The droid asks Woman, rhetorically, if she ever wondered why she never knew her birth parents or why she was able to survive for so long when everyone else around her had died or been killed by droids, or what her purpose was.
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Kathryn L. Humphreys, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University who studies psychology and early childhood development, said the bulk of Constantin's trauma would likely have been experienced not when he was separated from his birth parents, but when he was reunited with them.
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The man and woman I now know to have been my birth parents, chose to raise me, nurture me and, in the depths of the Depression, give me as normal a life as they could manage within a complex web of secrecy.
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The role of an interim care provider is set: to provide care, in his or her own home, for a newborn infant for a few days, or a few weeks, while the birth parents consider their next steps (and retain their full legal rights).
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The connection between these two disorders persisted even after researchers accounted for other factors that can influence the risk of developing asthma and ADHD such as mothers' age at birth, parents' income and education levels, babies' gestational age and weight at birth, and childhood eczema.
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At their first visit, one week after the child's birth, parents were surveyed about their expectations for the milestones their child would meet in his or her first year of life, and what they thought of their own role in the child's cognitive growth.
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"I don't know about other people's lives, [but] as parents of adopted children, the advice [we were given] was, 'If they want to find their birth parents, you support that,'" Kidman told PEOPLE's editor-in-chief in a February episode of The Jess Cagle Interview.
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DNA testing confirmed that Baby A and Baby B (as court documents called them) weren't genetically related to either of the birth parents, or to each other—they were related to two other couples who had been seeking fertility treatments at the same clinic.
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So if a child is consistently showing signs that their gender identity or expression does not match the gender that was assigned to them at birth, parents should take that seriously, and let the child live based on their clearly and persistently expressed identity.
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Non-store employees, such as those employed at Starbucks' corporate office in Seattle, will be eligible for more paid leave time: Birth mothers can take up to 18 weeks paid leave at 100 percent pay, and non-birth parents will get up to 12 weeks paid leave.
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" Rainé Rainé, 25, a performer with House of Gunt and buyer at Civvies Reclaimed Clothing in Savannah, GA "I was exposed to water at a very young age and throughout my childhood, a time in which my birth parents were accepting of my gender non-conformity.
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Graham knew his birth parents' first names, but he tells Refinery29 that while he had tried to search for them on social media, it wasn't until he recently did an Ancestry DNA test that he got their last names and was able to actually look them up.
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Raised in Spring, Texas, a suburban area on the outskirts of Houston, Shults's birth parents split up following "a traumatic thing" that occurred during his childhood; he stayed with his mother and stepfather in Spring and occasionally visited his birth father at his new home in Austin.
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In flashbacks, we see Jack try to convince Rebecca to find Randall's birth father so Randall can have a better sense of himself, but Rebecca is against it because she's afraid of what could happen if his birth parents have rights and try to take Randall back.
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At-risk parents have a right to be fully informed about all of their options: reunification with their child, a state adoption where future contact with their child is uncertain, or a truly open adoption where the birth parents are an integral part of their child's life.
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The Donaldson researchers found that, during the first few meetings with birth parents, agencies tended to go straight into adoption logistics without covering other options and relevant information, such as parenting resources, access to independent counselors and legal representation, and support groups before and after birth.
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Told from three perspectives, the novel begins when 25-year-old Libby receives a letter from a London lawyer that not only reveals the identity of her birth parents but also names her as the sole inheritor of an empty townhouse in London's posh Chelsea neighborhood.
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"I needed to know I wasn't a throw-away child," Louganis — who is the subject of a new documentary streaming on the People/Entertainment Weekly Network and is featured in the current issue of PEOPLE — says of being adopted and being filled with questions about his birth parents.
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Like him, I traveled to China when it was comparatively easy — endless paperwork and financial headaches notwithstanding — to adopt a baby girl who had been abandoned in a country where birth parents struggled with a one-child policy and a cultural and economic imperative to have a son.
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"Wonder Boy" traces his search for his birth parents, and Mr. Rousteing's journey from the outskirts of the establishment to its inner sanctum (on Monday, he had been seated next to Brigitte Macron, the first lady of France, at a dinner at the Élysée Palace to celebrate fashion week).
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And the novels feature a nearly identical final twist: In each story, the teenager that the narrator is trying to protect turns out to be a manipulative psychopath, who tortures animals, has killed one or both birth parents, and then tried to kill the protagonist after confessing to the crimes.
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Can the nation now move on to adoption law, where birth mothers and birth fathers are treated totally differently based solely on their gender and which often leads to heartbreaking legal cases and a lose-lose-lose situation for all members of the adoptive triad —birth parents, adoptive parents and the child?
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In addition to its glaringly problematic story lines, "Friends" had some issues with continuity that can be hard to ignore to this day, from petty details (like characters having multiple different birthdays) to major emotional moments getting little to no follow-through (like Phoebe's birth parents disappearing from her life without explanation).
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The Seattle-based tech giant committed to spend $75 million on a new initiative to expand computer science education in America's schools and upped its paid parental leave policy to 20 weeks for mothers and 12 weeks for non-birth parents — two initiatives in line with topics the President touched on during his speech.
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Starbucks' website outlines the new benefits, which go into effect October 1: Birth mothers employed at Starbucks stores (baristas, et al) will now be eligible for six weeks of paid leave at 100 percent pay, plus an additional 12 weeks of unpaid leave; non-birth parents (so partners, adoptive parents, and foster parents) will be able to take 12 weeks unpaid leave.
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As our home study was wrapping up — we were submitting all the documents and our social worker was making sure everything was uploaded correctly — we also began creating adoption profiles; one shorter profile was a page long and used on the adoption agency's website, while another was four pages long, to be carried by social workers to show to birth parents.
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In 1995, he admitted to Sports Illustrated that he had "knowingly fabricated many details of Suraya's upbringing:" that she'd been found as a baby, abandoned by her birth parents, on a coconut-strewn beach off the coast of Madagascar (in reality, she was born and raised in Nice); that she'd never had her hair cut; that she subsisted on a macrobiotic or birdseed diet.
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Plenty of movies and TV shows that feature adopted kids looking for their birth parents actually end with the kid who feels unloved through the whole movie or episode finally finding their birth parent(s) — or realizing that they had died — and learning that they loved them the whole time (think Annie or even Stuart Little.) But while that feeling of being unwanted may be true for some who are adopted, it's not the only story.
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