You have to love that term - "tracking down." For me it evokes an image of someone dressed in camouflage gear traipsing through the woods carrying a long rifle, and ready to aim and fire. Although I do not believe it is the best way to describe an adoption search, sometimes searching is a matter of tracking someone down. Therefore "tracking down" does not bother me.

Tracking Down Biological Kids or Parents is an article about recent changes in adoption access laws in North Carolina.... more

Deena Back in School is a current news article about an eight-year old California girl.

As Deena got sicker and weaker, the family took a risk and flew the girl's 24-year-old birth mother in from Thailand for a transplant. She was the only one they'd found who had come close to a match.

Deena Bhavindhu is an eight year old Redding California adoptee who has been recovering from a bone marrow transplant for the past year. She recently was allowed to go... more

In this article entitled Days before her death, mother gets wish of complete family a story unfolds about a family with ten siblings long separated. The two youngest children were taken from the mother and placed by adoption. In 1988, both of those children were found.

This month after 40 years of waiting, searching, hoping and praying, Gunnerson's prayers were answered at 7 a.m. April 14 by a handsome cowboy who came and stood by... more

Here we go again. This article discusses the open records issue as legislation is under way in North Carolina to change laws re acess.

"This is a very tough thing to balance -- the privacy of a birth parent against the search by an adoptee for their own personal information," said Brinton Wright, a Greensboro adoption lawyer and board member of a children's home.

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The Adoption Search is an interesting article via blogger Sandra.

For some in their 40s, 50s and older, adoption searching has been a Pandora's Box; for others, there is newfound peace with closure.

This is definitely a pertinent article for me. It talks about how older people are more in a place to have "more patience and wisdom about who they are and what they are looking for by reuniting."... more

Recently, MTV emailed me asking for help in finding some adoptees looking for their birth fathers. They are looking for adoptees and others between the ages of 16 and 28, who are looking for their fathers for a potential show.

Not only are they looking for adoptees, but others who were separated from their fathers at an early age. This include those who wish to find their sperm donors. If you are interested email them at: father@mtvstaff.com with the details of your story.

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What does an adoptee's obituary have to do with anything? Read this Chicago Sun obituary and you will find out.

The two developed a friendship, and over coffee one day, she delivered the most famous line of her life: "Does the date Sept. 20, 1917, mean anything to you?"

Margaret M. Skerrett, discovered when she was 10 years old that she was adopted. While working at a dentist's office when she was in her twenties, she was... more

Since I wrote about Toby Dawson’s search for birth family during the Olympics, here and here, I also wanted to follow-up with a post about his reunion with his birth father. There is even a video showing their tearful reunion.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time,"... more

Sheesh, life can be "iffy" too, right? This article offers several reunion stories and references the uncertainty of reunions. Although I am not wild about the less than positive title of this story, I always enjoy reunion stories. For people considering a search, reading about reunions may serve to assure you that many of your feelings are very normal. People considering a search may need to understand that they are not alone, and that many others feel... more

Kelly Kiser-Mostrom, author of The Cruelest Con: The Guide for a SAFE Adoption Journey, will appear as an expert on the Dr. Phil show. The two-part episode about adoption scams is scheduled to air Thursday, February 22 and Friday, February 23, 2007.

Kiser-Mostrom is a wife, mother and member of the American Adoption Congress who presents workshops about adoption nationwide. For nearly three years, she and her husband endured the nightmare of an adoption scam. She shares her heart-wrenching personal journey in The Cruelest Con, a guide... more