NBC Article "A Korean Adoptee Starts the Search for Her Birth Family"
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/korean-adoptee-starts-search-her-birth-family-n209891
As said by Heather Schultz, there are significant portions of people who are adopted and still confused with their identities. Instead of biological parents they have, all of adoptees have stepparents, and therefore they think parents “left” from them. Because they were adopted in very young age, they cannot think that stepparents are “real” parents. However, physical difference, such as different color of skins, and leaving evidences that adoptees can think about their biological parents when they grow up.
“Even if my birth family prefers to stay hidden, which they might, I need to see this through. My whole life has been a series of stories in which I didn't belong because of what I didn't know. I'm ready to fill in the holes. I'm ready to tell the rest of my story."
Majority of adoptees want to figure out their biological parents to, as said, “fill” their holes. It is hard time that adoptees face because they have difficulties figuring out or identifying with their identities. However, biological parents have their own stories, and adoptees have their own stories, as the author mentioned, and this is the why they overcome difficulties to adventure to know more about their own identity and their own biological family.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/korean-adoptee-starts-search-her-birth-family-n209891
As said by Heather Schultz, there are significant portions of people who are adopted and still confused with their identities. Instead of biological parents they have, all of adoptees have stepparents, and therefore they think parents “left” from them. Because they were adopted in very young age, they cannot think that stepparents are “real” parents. However, physical difference, such as different color of skins, and leaving evidences that adoptees can think about their biological parents when they grow up.
“Even if my birth family prefers to stay hidden, which they might, I need to see this through. My whole life has been a series of stories in which I didn't belong because of what I didn't know. I'm ready to fill in the holes. I'm ready to tell the rest of my story."
Majority of adoptees want to figure out their biological parents to, as said, “fill” their holes. It is hard time that adoptees face because they have difficulties figuring out or identifying with their identities. However, biological parents have their own stories, and adoptees have their own stories, as the author mentioned, and this is the why they overcome difficulties to adventure to know more about their own identity and their own biological family.