[righteousbabe]

Well. I've just found this site and I'm really surprised and happy with the number of young people on here...

I've been told that my birth mother was 15 when she had me and put me up for adoption. I was born in Darwin, Austrlaia. She named me and my adoptive parents kept that name.

2 Years later (when she was 17), she had a "long term" boyfriend and they both were planning on moving to Melbourne, Australia. She got pregnant again and apparently the boyfriend didn't want to keep the baby so she put it up for adoption - my adoptive parents adopted the new baby and now I live with my "real" sister. We have the same mother but different dad - she looks like she has some Italian/Greek in her.

It's really weird knowing that I live with a 'blood' relative (what me and my sis call it, haha) and then my adoptive parents. I can't imagine what it must have been like for our birth mum having to give up 2 kids in 2 years.

I am glad, in a way, that it happened like that. I can't imagine raising a child at 15 or 17. And if my sister wasn't adopted as well, I would never know her.

Because our birth mum was so young, I have no doubt there are other family members out there that we don't know.

I have a question for all parents who have had children and put them up for adoption..... do you really think about them often? Do you want to meet them? Honestly, are there times when you don't want to meet them - and why? I'm so scared to start the search because I don't want to be let down - I don't want them to say "Sorry, she doesn't want anything to do with you". Maybe that was a really bad part of her life and she's blocked it out and doesn't want it coming back to haunt her? I don't know...