I’m sixteen and just going though a few issue’s with my being adopted. My parents (adoptive parents that is, but I’ve never thought of them as anything but my parents) have always been honest with me and my brother about the fact that we were adopted, in my case because my parents were still in High School when I was born. (One weird thing that’s about that is the fact that my Birth-Mother went to the same high school I’m going to now.) I’ve sometimes though abouttrying to contact them when I turn 18, but I don’t think I will. When I think about my Birth-Parents I get mixed emotions, I’m glad that they had me, and I think they made the right choice in putting me up for adoption, rather then trying to juggle highschool and a baby, but at the same time I feel, not angry, but upset in some way. I’m not really sure why I started this thread now, I just have never really discussed my being adopted with anyone before, and I was just wondering what other adoptees have gone through, and how they have resolved any issue’s they’ve had. Sorry that this threads a mess.
I broke off contact with my biological family last month – permanently.
My parents were also always honest with my brother and me about the fact that we’re adopted. I occasionally wondered what my birth parents were like, and that intensified when my mom told me they were both journalists, since I like to write, but I’ve never seriously considered attempting to contact them. I don’t have anything I need to say to them, and it doesn’t matter why they put me up for adoption, only that they did. I don’t want to have a relationship with them. They made a good choice, that made my family happy, and might have saved my life, since I had problems breathing as an infant and my adoptive mom was a nurse.