{"id":1888,"date":"2020-01-10T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heartofadoptions.com\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2024-03-04T14:13:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T19:13:14","slug":"adoption-surrounds-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartofadoptions.com\/adoption-surrounds-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Adoption Surrounds Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">I\u2019ve been out on medical leave for some time now. It\u2019s hard to share about that, but I would like to share the reactions that I get from people that I talk to. My particular medical treatments are daily and at the same time of day. As such, there are other individuals that go at the same time daily as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">It\u2019s interesting to me, and a bit surprising, how often the subject of adoption comes up in casual conversation. I was speaking with an individual, we\u2019ll call him John. The conversation started due to family medical history, so it\u2019s not a far stretch that John mentioned he was adopted and did not know his history. He had recently found his biological family and learned that both parents died from cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">He also found half siblings on both sides. This ended up being painful for him as they were never told about the adoption, at least on one side. He was a shock to them. As a birth mother myself, it is my greatest fear in reaching out to find my daughter. I don\u2019t want to shake her up like that. I do not want her to find out about the adoption through some DNA testing gone very, very wrong. I\u2019m so grateful to see so many of our adoptions done in an open and caring fashion. 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