November is National Adoption Month! We wanted to kick off this month by highlighting our friend Larry’s experience of finding his biological family through 23andMeMe, as reported by the Mercury News. You can read the full story from The Mercury News here.
We know several other people who have also found or reconnected with long-lost family members through 23andMe, and whenever we hear stories like this it lets us think about the types of technology our child might use to reach out to their biological families. We’re excited to live in a time when things like this are possible! It also reinforces our desire to pursue an open adoption.
The idea of an “open adoption” really started gaining popularity in the 1990’s, and now it’s more common to have an open adoption of some sort than it is to have a fully “closed adoption”. “Closed adoptions” were virtually the only option until the 1990’s. As we’ve learned while preparing to adopt, numerous studies have shown that adopted kids thrive when they know their biological backgrounds.
An open adoption means that our child will at least know they are adopted from a very early age, and we will share with them all we can about their birth-families. We also hope there will be some sort of communication between our family and our child’s birth family. The “openness” of an adoption is unique to each family and it can change over time.
Leave us a comment below if you’ve reconnected with family through a service like 23andMe! We’d love to hear your story.
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