For those adoptees who really be given away/abandoned...?
...rather than those who were taken from their mother, contrary to her preference.
1. Have you contacted/attempted to find your birth kith and kin?
2. For those who have found their birth family, did you receive a second rejection, or has it turned out 'happy' for you?
This get really long. Sorry. And thanks in advance to those of you who do read it adjectives the way through. <wry g>
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My Story.
I know for certain that I was both unwanted and neglected (at most minuscule by the time I was given away). While I've grown up hearing the stories about how poorly I be cared form it didn't sink in until I read the following summary letter that the Child Services SWer wrote for me (identifying info. removed - I didn't call for to remove all that much).
**
I have gone through your adoption file and this is a summary of the information it contains. Unfortunately nearby is no information about your birth and where you were born. The information it contains is hugely limited overall.
From the records your adoption was a private arrangement. This be not unusual at the time and private adoptions would be arranged through a third party, perhaps a common practitioner or a vicar for example.
The circumstances of your adoption with your mum and dad were that you were the daughter of a friend of your adopt mothers neighbour. This neighbour had heard that your birth mum had a brand new boyfriend and no longer had time to care for you.
There is very little information around your birth mother recorded on the file. Her name at the time be [name] and she lived at [address]. [name] already had another child called [sister] who was elder than you. No other information about [sister] is given.
Social Services first heard about you going to live next to your mum and dad from the health visitor involved. As a result a social worker went to look in your birth mother [name] at [address]. This was a two bedroomed flat in a multi storey block. The social worker who visited record that she had known [name] and her parents for a number of years and I believe she be indicating that there had been concerns contained by the past. When the social worker arrived at [name]'s flat she found it to be in a state of chaos. There be empty cardboard boxes and litter of every description and old furniture piled up in every factor of the flat.
[name] admitted to the social worker that through a neighbour, you had been official for adoption by your parents, [adad][amom]. She told the social worker that she had handed you over to you mum and dad on the 7th April 1973 when they came to the flat. [name] have told the social worker that she did not know your mum and dad other than they had no children and seemed to be fond of you. [name] have not made any enquiries about your wellbeing since and did not ask the social worker whether she had done anything wrong.
The social worker record that [name] gave no indication of having regretted her decision or of have changed her mind.
[name] explained that she had asked for a visit from a social worker and the indication was that because this have not happened she could not go on waiting and had made her own arrangement. When your parents collected you from the flat [name] signed a written statement giving them consent to adopt you.
There is further information recorded on the file in relation to how your mum and dad feel when they first saw you. Your mum may have told you about the conditions in which you be living. They described the flat as being in a very dishevelled state and this fitted next to what the social worker who visited [name] had found. You were reported to enjoy spent long hours in your cot and were extremely dirty when your mum and dad first saw you. You were incredibly quiet and withdrawn and suffering with very bleak nappy rash. They felt very concerned and worried for you.
When you first go to live with your mum and dad they were very concerned because you be extremely quiet and withdrawn. From what we have learned since in the order of children who are neglected we understand that when a child hasn't had their basic requirements met they have become very quiet and withdrawn. These children efficiently learn that crying doesn't work as they still do not get what they need surrounded by the way of food, clean nappies and affection for example.
Gradually as you began to have a feeling safe and to have your needs met you begin to make more natural responses and soon began to cry and hoot and make normal movements. By the time you were nearly a year outdated you had developed a good deal and were walking and inauguration to talk as expected for your age.
Your mum and dad made an application to adopt you in May 1973 and the Adoption Order was granted on the [date] August 1973.
I hope, whilst the information is terrifically limited [my name] that it has helped you work out more why you were adopted and help you within relation to any decisions you may now make contained by trying to make contact with any birth relatives.
**
SW
You should still meet with them, time changes profoundly of things, they likely have matured. Go into it prepared for the worse and hoping for the best. At the very least possible you will be able to see were you got your inheritance and hopefully some medical background. If things go bad you can other leave but if you don't do this you will always wonder "what if", do it to get closure. I don't know how outdated you are but likely your over 18? That's a lot of time and people do adjust, they mature. My son's biological mom four years ago was a raging alcoholic who neglected to feed him or transformation his diaper, he nearly starved to death. She went to jail, she get sober and now she has turned her life around. She still have a long way to go, but she is not the same women she be when I got custody. I want my son to have a relationship with her, we can't turn backbone the clock and undo the damage her drinking while pregnant created but we can move forward. In the same bearing you can't go back to stop them from leaving you but you can forgive them, move forward and try to build a alien relationship with them.
I'm sorry for your loss, and the circumstances surrounding it. :-(
I wish you the best in whatever you agree on to do.
wow, i read it all and just want to enunciate THANK GOODNESS for your adoptive parents who have cared for and nurtured you into adulthood, your biological mother could enjoy really damaged you.
I am not adopted so i can't really answer the question, but i merely wanted to share that with you.
:0)
EDIT: wow! I don't know what i said wrong, all i be saying was that your adoptive parents probably saved your energy. I didn't say anything bad or nasty at adjectives. If you disagree with my views that your adoptive parents rescued you from a potentially dangerous situation, thats fine. You know best, after adjectives they were your parents. But you should articulate that in a more coherent and controlled way. Swearing at me is manifestly uncalled for at best, and at worst, completely juvenile.
If you feel angry about something, maybe its better to direct it towards the personality that offended you, not me!
Toodles!
To an extent I understand what you mean here. My bmom didn't want me. She have no desire to be my mother, yet she has two sons, one older than me and one younger, and quantity of me is dieing to meet her. I want to know if she is where I got my freckles and my antenna. But on the other hand, I hate her for not loving her only daughter plenty to want to be in my life. I think you should assemble her. Like in a public place just so satisfy your curiosity. After that, I imagine it'll be easier to decide whether or not you want to continue some sort of relationship with her.
Answers: Thank you 7rin for sharing your story.
"For those adoptees who really were given away/abandoned..."
I'm one of those. I'm the youngest of three siblings. My eldest sister tell me that she was kept for a months before she was given up whereas I be given up on day 1. I spent the first month in a home so I have no impression how I was treated. I've been avoiding the shocking reports and stories that are coming out about the era.
"When you first go to live with your mum and dad they were very concerned because you be extremely quiet and withdrawn. From what we have learned since more or less children who are neglected we understand that when a child hasn't had their basic requirements met they have become very quiet and withdrawn. These children at a rate of knots learn that crying doesn't work as they still do not get what they need surrounded by the way of food, clean nappies and affection for example."
I can definitely be supportive on that. I've always been very noiseless and withdrawn. My parents always told me that I never cried as a baby. They spent a lot of the time checking on me to see if I be alive; I was that quiet.
"1. Have you contacted/attempted to find your birth family?"
Yes.
"2. For those who enjoy found their birth family, did you receive a second rejection, or has it turned out 'happy' for you?"
My natural mother be the only one to reject me. It was depressing for a short period of time. On the daytime it occurred I went walkabout for 6 hours, it ended up pouring precipitation a couple hours into it. When I think back I can jokenly say "God shared my aching and cried for me". Life goes on Indy.
The rest of my family has so far permitted me. I'm very close to my sisters. I'm proud to say that I will be giving away her away at her wedding and I'm going to be a Great Uncle soon.
"How did you break out of this cycle of thoughts, and do you still hold this confusion of thoughts?"
Ask myself the question "Is this what I really "need" in my life?"
Sitting at home pondering roughly things won't help stop the thought. Your better off seeking answers regardless of the outcome at least you made an attempt.
Come to the realization that some things wont be answered or only dont have any answers. Source(s): An Aussie male adoptee - my email is always start on.
Two question.
Are you British?
By private arrangement do they mean private adoption?
I'm only asking as a law be passed in 1958 stating that adoptions had to shift through LA social services or adoption agencies.
http://www.paclii.org/vu/legis/vu-uk_act…
29. Restriction on making arrangements for adoption
(1) It shall not be lawful for any body of persons to make any arrangements for the adoption of an infant unless that body is a registered adoption society or a local authority.
(2) It shall not be kosher for a registered adoption society or local authority by whom arrangements are made for the adoption of an infant to place him in the care and possession of a person who proposes to adopt him if an adoption decree in respect of the infant could not lawfully be made in like better of that person.
(3) Every person who -
(a) takes any fragment in the management or control of a body of persons which exists utterly or in part for the purpose of making arrangements for the adoption of infants and which is not a registered adoption society or a local authority; or
(b) is guilty of a contravention of subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section;
shall be liable on summary conviction to confinement for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to both.
According to my son's adoption paperwork I wanted him adopted by two parents but when I eventually saw the paperwork (after we reunited) I found out that wasn't the lone lie on it. All the information came from my mother and about 75% of it be untrue - I should have been included with the paperwork mortal filled in but I refused to agree to the adoption and be coerced into surrendering.
My son's belief of what was written was true was reinforced when he found my family connections and lied to him for almost 5 years by stating they didn't know where I was. They never told me they had contact near him.
I found him in 2004 without actively searching and we be both very hurt and upset that my family had lied for so long and would hold continued to lie if I hadn't found him. It has been a rollercoaster but I am obliged that he is in my life and that he does know the truth now.
ETA thankfulness for explaining - makes sense now as it still went through SWs and in attendance are court records :)
I'm not adopt but I do have siblings that got adopted out in the past I was born. My mom was young and be facing a hard time in her life and have to give up her children. It was the hardest thing ever that she have to do. She held alot of grief through the years and blocked out her feelings. Until a couple of weeks ago when we found them. They were thrilled to find us and we were thrilled to find them. We met them and it be a bitter sweet reunion. Alot of happiness and tears of joy. It was the best awareness ever and my mom explained to them what happened and they understood and forgave her. In that short of time, we all hold grown close. They were looking for us but didn't have all the info to know how to locate us. We now feel that our family is truely complete. And we will never tolerate them go again. Source(s): I know your looking for adopted children for answers but I wanted to share my experience so you would know.
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1. Have you contacted/attempted to find your birth kith and kin?
2. For those who have found their birth family, did you receive a second rejection, or has it turned out 'happy' for you?
This get really long. Sorry. And thanks in advance to those of you who do read it adjectives the way through. <wry g>
==========
My Story.
I know for certain that I was both unwanted and neglected (at most minuscule by the time I was given away). While I've grown up hearing the stories about how poorly I be cared form it didn't sink in until I read the following summary letter that the Child Services SWer wrote for me (identifying info. removed - I didn't call for to remove all that much).
**
I have gone through your adoption file and this is a summary of the information it contains. Unfortunately nearby is no information about your birth and where you were born. The information it contains is hugely limited overall.
From the records your adoption was a private arrangement. This be not unusual at the time and private adoptions would be arranged through a third party, perhaps a common practitioner or a vicar for example.
The circumstances of your adoption with your mum and dad were that you were the daughter of a friend of your adopt mothers neighbour. This neighbour had heard that your birth mum had a brand new boyfriend and no longer had time to care for you.
There is very little information around your birth mother recorded on the file. Her name at the time be [name] and she lived at [address]. [name] already had another child called [sister] who was elder than you. No other information about [sister] is given.
Social Services first heard about you going to live next to your mum and dad from the health visitor involved. As a result a social worker went to look in your birth mother [name] at [address]. This was a two bedroomed flat in a multi storey block. The social worker who visited record that she had known [name] and her parents for a number of years and I believe she be indicating that there had been concerns contained by the past. When the social worker arrived at [name]'s flat she found it to be in a state of chaos. There be empty cardboard boxes and litter of every description and old furniture piled up in every factor of the flat.
[name] admitted to the social worker that through a neighbour, you had been official for adoption by your parents, [adad][amom]. She told the social worker that she had handed you over to you mum and dad on the 7th April 1973 when they came to the flat. [name] have told the social worker that she did not know your mum and dad other than they had no children and seemed to be fond of you. [name] have not made any enquiries about your wellbeing since and did not ask the social worker whether she had done anything wrong.
The social worker record that [name] gave no indication of having regretted her decision or of have changed her mind.
[name] explained that she had asked for a visit from a social worker and the indication was that because this have not happened she could not go on waiting and had made her own arrangement. When your parents collected you from the flat [name] signed a written statement giving them consent to adopt you.
There is further information recorded on the file in relation to how your mum and dad feel when they first saw you. Your mum may have told you about the conditions in which you be living. They described the flat as being in a very dishevelled state and this fitted next to what the social worker who visited [name] had found. You were reported to enjoy spent long hours in your cot and were extremely dirty when your mum and dad first saw you. You were incredibly quiet and withdrawn and suffering with very bleak nappy rash. They felt very concerned and worried for you.
When you first go to live with your mum and dad they were very concerned because you be extremely quiet and withdrawn. From what we have learned since in the order of children who are neglected we understand that when a child hasn't had their basic requirements met they have become very quiet and withdrawn. These children efficiently learn that crying doesn't work as they still do not get what they need surrounded by the way of food, clean nappies and affection for example.
Gradually as you began to have a feeling safe and to have your needs met you begin to make more natural responses and soon began to cry and hoot and make normal movements. By the time you were nearly a year outdated you had developed a good deal and were walking and inauguration to talk as expected for your age.
Your mum and dad made an application to adopt you in May 1973 and the Adoption Order was granted on the [date] August 1973.
I hope, whilst the information is terrifically limited [my name] that it has helped you work out more why you were adopted and help you within relation to any decisions you may now make contained by trying to make contact with any birth relatives.
**
SW
You should still meet with them, time changes profoundly of things, they likely have matured. Go into it prepared for the worse and hoping for the best. At the very least possible you will be able to see were you got your inheritance and hopefully some medical background. If things go bad you can other leave but if you don't do this you will always wonder "what if", do it to get closure. I don't know how outdated you are but likely your over 18? That's a lot of time and people do adjust, they mature. My son's biological mom four years ago was a raging alcoholic who neglected to feed him or transformation his diaper, he nearly starved to death. She went to jail, she get sober and now she has turned her life around. She still have a long way to go, but she is not the same women she be when I got custody. I want my son to have a relationship with her, we can't turn backbone the clock and undo the damage her drinking while pregnant created but we can move forward. In the same bearing you can't go back to stop them from leaving you but you can forgive them, move forward and try to build a alien relationship with them.
I'm sorry for your loss, and the circumstances surrounding it. :-(
I wish you the best in whatever you agree on to do.
wow, i read it all and just want to enunciate THANK GOODNESS for your adoptive parents who have cared for and nurtured you into adulthood, your biological mother could enjoy really damaged you.
I am not adopted so i can't really answer the question, but i merely wanted to share that with you.
:0)
EDIT: wow! I don't know what i said wrong, all i be saying was that your adoptive parents probably saved your energy. I didn't say anything bad or nasty at adjectives. If you disagree with my views that your adoptive parents rescued you from a potentially dangerous situation, thats fine. You know best, after adjectives they were your parents. But you should articulate that in a more coherent and controlled way. Swearing at me is manifestly uncalled for at best, and at worst, completely juvenile.
If you feel angry about something, maybe its better to direct it towards the personality that offended you, not me!
Toodles!
To an extent I understand what you mean here. My bmom didn't want me. She have no desire to be my mother, yet she has two sons, one older than me and one younger, and quantity of me is dieing to meet her. I want to know if she is where I got my freckles and my antenna. But on the other hand, I hate her for not loving her only daughter plenty to want to be in my life. I think you should assemble her. Like in a public place just so satisfy your curiosity. After that, I imagine it'll be easier to decide whether or not you want to continue some sort of relationship with her.
Answers: Thank you 7rin for sharing your story.
"For those adoptees who really were given away/abandoned..."
I'm one of those. I'm the youngest of three siblings. My eldest sister tell me that she was kept for a months before she was given up whereas I be given up on day 1. I spent the first month in a home so I have no impression how I was treated. I've been avoiding the shocking reports and stories that are coming out about the era.
"When you first go to live with your mum and dad they were very concerned because you be extremely quiet and withdrawn. From what we have learned since more or less children who are neglected we understand that when a child hasn't had their basic requirements met they have become very quiet and withdrawn. These children at a rate of knots learn that crying doesn't work as they still do not get what they need surrounded by the way of food, clean nappies and affection for example."
I can definitely be supportive on that. I've always been very noiseless and withdrawn. My parents always told me that I never cried as a baby. They spent a lot of the time checking on me to see if I be alive; I was that quiet.
"1. Have you contacted/attempted to find your birth family?"
Yes.
"2. For those who enjoy found their birth family, did you receive a second rejection, or has it turned out 'happy' for you?"
My natural mother be the only one to reject me. It was depressing for a short period of time. On the daytime it occurred I went walkabout for 6 hours, it ended up pouring precipitation a couple hours into it. When I think back I can jokenly say "God shared my aching and cried for me". Life goes on Indy.
The rest of my family has so far permitted me. I'm very close to my sisters. I'm proud to say that I will be giving away her away at her wedding and I'm going to be a Great Uncle soon.
"How did you break out of this cycle of thoughts, and do you still hold this confusion of thoughts?"
Ask myself the question "Is this what I really "need" in my life?"
Sitting at home pondering roughly things won't help stop the thought. Your better off seeking answers regardless of the outcome at least you made an attempt.
Come to the realization that some things wont be answered or only dont have any answers. Source(s): An Aussie male adoptee - my email is always start on.
Two question.
Are you British?
By private arrangement do they mean private adoption?
I'm only asking as a law be passed in 1958 stating that adoptions had to shift through LA social services or adoption agencies.
http://www.paclii.org/vu/legis/vu-uk_act…
29. Restriction on making arrangements for adoption
(1) It shall not be lawful for any body of persons to make any arrangements for the adoption of an infant unless that body is a registered adoption society or a local authority.
(2) It shall not be kosher for a registered adoption society or local authority by whom arrangements are made for the adoption of an infant to place him in the care and possession of a person who proposes to adopt him if an adoption decree in respect of the infant could not lawfully be made in like better of that person.
(3) Every person who -
(a) takes any fragment in the management or control of a body of persons which exists utterly or in part for the purpose of making arrangements for the adoption of infants and which is not a registered adoption society or a local authority; or
(b) is guilty of a contravention of subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section;
shall be liable on summary conviction to confinement for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to both.
According to my son's adoption paperwork I wanted him adopted by two parents but when I eventually saw the paperwork (after we reunited) I found out that wasn't the lone lie on it. All the information came from my mother and about 75% of it be untrue - I should have been included with the paperwork mortal filled in but I refused to agree to the adoption and be coerced into surrendering.
My son's belief of what was written was true was reinforced when he found my family connections and lied to him for almost 5 years by stating they didn't know where I was. They never told me they had contact near him.
I found him in 2004 without actively searching and we be both very hurt and upset that my family had lied for so long and would hold continued to lie if I hadn't found him. It has been a rollercoaster but I am obliged that he is in my life and that he does know the truth now.
ETA thankfulness for explaining - makes sense now as it still went through SWs and in attendance are court records :)
I'm not adopt but I do have siblings that got adopted out in the past I was born. My mom was young and be facing a hard time in her life and have to give up her children. It was the hardest thing ever that she have to do. She held alot of grief through the years and blocked out her feelings. Until a couple of weeks ago when we found them. They were thrilled to find us and we were thrilled to find them. We met them and it be a bitter sweet reunion. Alot of happiness and tears of joy. It was the best awareness ever and my mom explained to them what happened and they understood and forgave her. In that short of time, we all hold grown close. They were looking for us but didn't have all the info to know how to locate us. We now feel that our family is truely complete. And we will never tolerate them go again. Source(s): I know your looking for adopted children for answers but I wanted to share my experience so you would know.
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