If you found out you were adopted, would you try to find your birth parents?

Yes. Not to upset my adoptive parents, not to hassle my birth parents. But to find out my genetic history.

I would want to know if I had a propensity for breast cancer, or Alzheimer or something like that. Only my birth parents can tell me that sort of thing and that's what I'd ask them about. I've told my children all about our genetic past :) That we females get arthritis, that we go gray young, that we are thin, that we have no breast cancer history etc etc.It's the least I can do for them and that's what I'd want to know if I was adopted.

I would simply out of curiosity if nothing else. I think there is a deep desire to understand who created you and perhaps even why they let you go. Perhaps you could never see this person as a parent of yours but you might make a new friend out of it.

I'm really torn on this, I can undestand their curiosity, their need to fill a void in their life that would help them feel complete. On the flip side, you would be opening a Pandora's box that could be filled with unpleasant revelations. Why was I adopted?

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.