re: Is anyone here adopted?

I am - had a great experience w being united w/ birth Mon and 1/2 brother & Sister.

Not a fan of my birth grandmother who's still around. It was her decision to give me up.

Srry to hear about others w/ bad experiences

I'm pushing 50 years old

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a lady walked up and she looked at George and said, "you look just like your father."

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Shame on her, who does this, and then just walks away not knowing what that statement could do to a person?

Not adopted but my brother has adopted a few children.

Took Ancestry.com and found out I had an older brother my father never knew about

Louisiana passed a law in August, 2022 that for original birth certificates from adults who were adopted as children. With access to these official documents, they can learn the identity of their birth parents – information that was previously withheld unless adoptees were willing to go through a costly, lengthy court process.

Personally, the only information I would want to know is family medical history. I have no desire to develop a personal relationship with birth parents.

god bless man

My younger brother is adopted. He was my cousin & I wish we'd left that sorry POS where he was.

Adopted at 9 months after birth. I never bothered to search.

My daughter is adopted. Most precious child ever.

She had a half sister that passed last year.
She never really knew her.

I was adopted. Mom was 10+ years younger than dad, they thought they could not have kids so adopted me. She died at 36 unfortunately. Turns out dad is Borderline Personality Disorder so verbally and emotionally and sometimes even physically abusive. Found Biologic Mother's family, she had already died, she had a severe mental disorder and why she gave me up as she had other children her mom and sister's were raising. Nice family, but not sure if situation would have been better or not based on what I was told by my biological brother, but probably better vs the man who adopted me with the personality disorder who is indescribable to any logical person. Later found biologic father, heck of a guy. Would have loved to know him more, but he died just a couple of years after we met. He had no idea I existed so not sure he would have even been in my life. I am just glad to be here and trying to put together a loving, semi-normal (whatever that means) family with my wife and our kids. Good to see a bunch of adopted folks around.

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Louisiana passed a law in August, 2022 that for original birth certificates from adults who were adopted as children. With access to these official documents, they can learn the identity of their birth parents – information that was previously withheld unless adoptees were willing to go through a costly, lengthy court process.

Personally, the only information I would want to know is family medical history. I have no desire to develop a personal relationship with birth parents.

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Well, I was born at Charity Hospital, mother was at the hospital for unwed mother's in New Orleans apparently before that. My question is, a lot of those original records and such were in the basement of charity or universtiy hosptial and got flooded during Katrina. I am not sure this is going to help many folks born in the new orleans area. But would be interesting to see