What happens when an adoption search leads to reunion and reunion leads to a disappointing outcome? How does the outcome affect the adopted person in mid-life and 25 years later? When relationships with birth relatives end can we really judge it as good or bad when we have yet to appreciate how it fits into the bigger picture of our life?
The author, a clinical psychologist, addresses these and other search and reunion issues from personal experience as an adopted person who succeeded in finding his birth relatives but ultimately found that those relationships would not survive an inevitable outcome. Much has been written about adoption search and reunion, but virtually nothing appears in the literature about the long-term experiences of adopted persons 25 years after the fact. The knowledge that experience gives us is valuable to others only if we share it. The events described here offer perspectives on search and reunion from the past and the present. As such, they may be of benefit to anyone who has been involved in search and reunion as well as those who remain ambivalent about a journey that will, in one way or another, change their lives.

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