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Thank you for the encouragement. You are so right - it's very hard to find out later in life about an adoption.
My mom's birth certificate has only the adoptive parents names. The document from the hospital (which we probably weren't supposed to have - I think the amother sent it over to us by accident, years ago) is very strange. My mother thinks her amother just took a blank form and filled it out herself (thus, no doctor's signature). That would have been easy enough, since her amother used to work there as a nurse. I wrote to the county court, where my mom grew up (but I don't know for sure that she was born there!) I haven't gotten a reply, and that was ten months ago. My mother's afamily has relatives who work at different departments of the county court, so maybe that route is a dead end...
Black market babies... hmm. Terrible, that such an expression even exists. Have you ever heard of a situation where the money flow went the other way? That is, where one of the birth parents (or birth grandparents) paid someone to take the child? I think that's what happened in my mom's case.
-raduga
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