Adoption Reunions Can Be Tricky, if not disastrous…

Adoption reunions don’t always turn out well, and they can have unintended consequences. The following is a teaser from an article in the April 7, 2009 edition of the Mirror, titled “My adopted son came home… and nearly ended my marriage.”

A reunion with a long-lost family member may seem like a cause for joy – but things don’t always turn out the The Hopesway you planned.

When Philippa Hope found the son she’d put up for adoption 23 years earlier, it had a catastrophic impact on her marriage.

Having given up Anthony when she was just a teenager, she’d gone on to marry Rick Hope, 40.

But when Anthony found her, it almost ended their marriage.

Read the full article.

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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