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Re: I wonder, are any of you also adopted?
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Originally Posted by Wilsonwas
I was....
Found out by my A-mom informing me 1 month before I got married.
Since then.....all known parents bio and adoptive have passed. Which I only know re: bio, because I found my original family.
A few days ago I found my original hospital birth certificate proving that search ended correctly, and showing me my birth moms full name - and my name before it was changed. I know an AoG pastor that was adopted, and she notes some issues that seem comman to these kids. She also is willing to not only talk but blog about it? Seems Apostolics would rather sweep the idea under a rug.....or maybe not?
I also learned that everyone in the church I grew up in knew as well.
So: is keeping a secret for 20 years, also like the lie of omission? Or, is this something that also fell out of fashion in recent times, so that adopted persons are not so cast into secracy, and/or judged?
The Catholic church, quite often would even change peoples birth date, and other untruthful stuff to make it more difficult to patch your way back. Is this the job of a church? Or. Like selling indulgences.....is it just something a church could take interest in?
I can see the state acting in a distrustful manner but this seems not the business of a church. Honering my A-parents wishes was honerable, so I am a bit conflicted as to my view of this. Also seems those secret kerpers, now that all is in the open, still dont want to let go of any info, which seems weird.
Anyone else with a similar story, kind of feel weird about it?
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As a kid at some point I wondered if I was adopted. I think a lot of kids probably think that at some point. However I have seen the newspaper clippings announcing my birth and I look too much like my mom to be adopted.
One of the things that had made me wonder was that my parents had tried to have a child for 13 years before I was born and then tried to have more and were not successful. When I was probably about 10 we discussed possibly adopting me a brother or sister but they never got serious about it.
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