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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]-Why do you want to meet your biological mother? Is it to form a relationship?
-Do you think it's fair that you are allowed to contact your biological mother? Do you think your biological parents have a right to privacy? 
-If you had not been interested in seeking out your adoptive parents, how would you feel if they sought you out instead?
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OP here.  If my birth family wanted to form a relationship, I would be open to it, depending on what that relationship looked like.   It's hard to articulate why I want to meet them- I think it's mostly to say thank you for making a difficult choice and to let them know that my sister and I have a wonderful life now.

Well, I wouldn't quite characterize it as being "allowed" to contact my bmom.  As I mentioned earlier, I don't even know where she is, so it's not a possibility at this time.  I do think they have the right to privacy and if I did find them and they weren't interested, I would accept it and move in.  It's not something that I'm concentrating on and the agency is not actively searching for them.

When I was younger, I had no interest in trying to find them. If they had found me then, I probably would've been guardedly interested in meeting them.  Honestly, I didn't think about them that often, and it was only during the process of adopting my own child that I became more interested in learning more about my background.[/quote]

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