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Saturday, March 19, 2011
Ancestry.com observation
My husband was inputting our family history; and was frustrated that he couldn't see his and my family tree on the same page. He kept looking for that option. I pointed out, maybe he should just click on the icon for one of our children. Bingo! A complete tree of both his and mine, right on the screen.
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I was talking to a friend, whose father was adopted. Her father was never, apparently, very interested in his own biological family heritage, but my friend talked about the loss she felt in her own life, not knowing the rest of her family history--where she fits into the pattern, and what a blank that lack of knowledge has created in her life. She has a hunger to know more. I hope one day she can fill in that blank.
ReplyDeleteAdoptees can be rightfully fearful that a birth family might reject reconnecting. I can only assume many adoptions were done out of shame of a young unwed mother, and it was a secret.
ReplyDeleteA better way would to make adoption, more or less a guardianship, where birth parents are recognized but the day to day functions of parenting may be given to an older relative if a birth parent is incapable of raising the child.