What if you would find out that you were adopted?

Romania
October 2, 2010 4:09pm CST
Let's imagine this: You have lived your life with your family many years, and you would be treated well by your parents and you would have received anything you wanted from them. But one day you would find out that you are adopted, that those are not your real parents. What would you do? Would that change your relation with your parents? Would you like to know your biological parents? please let me know PS. I am not adopted, but if I would it wouldn't matter to me. My parents would be those who have raised me and those who have created me.
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@aaronfyzeon (1920)
• Philippines
2 Oct 10
I would not mind if i will know that I am just only an adopted child. I am not an adopted. As long as they have treated me right and my foster parents loved me like their own child then it would be fine for me. And as long as they haven't maltreated me then I will continue to regard them as my real parents. after all i would owe them my life because I will be nothing without their true love and care for me.
• Romania
2 Oct 10
You are very right. I think that I would appreciate them more if I knew that I am not their biological child and they still took good care of me. What would you do regarding your real parents? Would you have negative feelings about them? Would you like to get to know them? Or you wouldn't care?
• Philippines
2 Oct 10
I would still want to find them and just ask them the reason why they have given me away. I just need a closure for me to be able to have a peaceful mind as well. If the reason they will give would convince me then I will not be angry with them. But who knows what would be my real feelings if i am already in that situation.
• United States
3 Oct 10
I agree with aaronfyzeon on this. However, being mad would just depend on the reason they shoved me away. If it was for the better then I would not be mad.
@ip5217 (1655)
• Philippines
3 Oct 10
That would be mixed emotions on my end. First of all, I would love my adopted parents even more. I will be grateful for the things they have done for me. Also, I will try and find my real parents. I deserve an explanation why they did that.
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• Romania
4 Oct 10
Cannot agree more with you, you think the same as I do.
@jpso138 (7851)
• Philippines
3 Oct 10
Well, if such a case, I think it does not really matter considering that if they have treated me as their own, then I would consider myself lucky. I would be thankful and give them the respect and love that I would have give to my biological parents. However, I would certainly inquire as to who my real parents are. Perhaps if given the chance, I will meet them....
• Romania
5 Oct 10
I also think that a child who is adopted can be considered sort of lucky, if a child who is given away can be considered lucky. But they are lucky compared to those who will live their whole young life in a foster home. And it is natural to be curious about the biological parents and the reasons of being given away.
@thaMARKER (2503)
• Philippines
4 Oct 10
I think I will have mixed emotions. I will be very sad, happy and excite. Sad because I really love my parents and to find out that they’re not my biological folks is sad. Happy because they at least told me at my age, I think it would be better to tell someone at an early age. Excited because I will get to know my real parents, whoever they mabe.
• Romania
5 Oct 10
Interesting approach to this topic. But I think that you are right, many would feel the same. But I think that I would prefer to be told the truth at a mature age, not at a young one.
• Pamplona, Spain
2 Oct 10
Hiya Rap, No I would still love my adopted Parents and try to find out who the others are also if I can. Either way I would still feel like loving both sets of Parents if I could. I suppose it depends on the circumstances too. The others might not want to be found ever so it´s also a question of respect for them also. But it would be nice to know who they are.
• Pamplona, Spain
5 Oct 10
Hiya Rap, Even so I would still want to know them. As I would want to learn the events that made them feel like that and to act like that too. No one gives up a Baby willingly there has to be a reason behind it. Whether we can accept it or not is another thing.
• Romania
4 Oct 10
I would want to know who my biological parents are and why they gave me up, but that's all. I wouldn't really want to have contact with them, only if they had critical reasons to give me up. But if they just gave me up for comfortableness, then I wouldn't want to keep in touch with them.
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@fannitia (2167)
• Bulgaria
2 Oct 10
I'm sure that if I had discovered that I was adopted this wouldn't change my feelingt for my parents. The important thing is the actual relations in a family, not some background in the past. I don't know even if I would care to know who my biological parents was.
• Romania
4 Oct 10
I think you are very logical, but I think that my feelings for my foster parents would be greater, I would be more grateful for them. But I would want to know who my biological parents are, just for my own sake, to know who I am and where I am coming from.
@pogi253 (1586)
• Philippines
3 Oct 10
People find out they're adopted in different ways. These days, it's not uncommon to find out when you're so young you might not remember being told. However you find out you're adopted, at some stage you might start to think about whether or not you want to contact your real parents. People feel differently about this, and might have mixed emotions. Some people might have an instant desire to find out more about their biological parents whereas others may not feel the need or urge, or may in fact feel strongly that they do not want any contact. Everybody's response is individual, and can depend on a number of factors, including the way you find out about your adoption.
• Romania
5 Oct 10
You have right, all this things depend very much on numerous factors, and the reactions are also different from case to case.But I think that everybody would feel a bit shocked when found out that was adopted.
@tomitomi (5429)
• Singapore
3 Oct 10
Hi rappeter! I'm not adopted either and I love my parents very much. But if I were adopted I would have loved my adopted parents as much if not more. My hope would be to meet my biological parents and to find out why I was given away. If they were to accept me then it would only enrich my life.
• Romania
5 Oct 10
I think you have a healthy life philosophy amd you can let the past behind and only concentrate on present and future. Because not many people could forgive their real parents for giving them away. But there are cases when it is the best option to give a child away for his/her own good. And there are cases when the biological parents pass away and that is why a child gets to be adopted.
@acey76 (1276)
• Philippines
3 Oct 10
Well speaking for myself i just found out that i am adopted when im 30 years old...and i didnt mind it nothing has changed and im so thankful for my parents raising me as their own...
• Romania
5 Oct 10
Do you have any thoughts about your biological parents? Do you wonder who they are/were? Or you don't care? I know that I would be very curious about my biological heritage. But I cannot speak for sure, because it is not a case for me. I know that I am not adopted. How do you feel, it would be better to know this from a very young age or it is better that you have found out now that you are a mature person?
@jennbart (1330)
• Philippines
3 Oct 10
I do not know what I will feel. Maybe I will ask my adoptive parents if they know who my parents are, and maybe ask them if they know the reason why my parents gave me away. If its reasonable enough like I was sick and my parents do not have money to keep me alive, then ok. I will not keep grudges on them. If the reason was like that of the one who left her baby in an airplane, or tried to kill me. I will not look for my parents anymore. To h3ll with my biological mom if that's the case and I will love my adoptive parents even the more.
@rhodzptc (1317)
• Philippines
3 Oct 10
At first it would be shocking for me, because the truth is I am adopted. But that thing doesn't change anything since they have never treated me like I don't belong to them instead my brothers and my sisters like me so much even though they already knew that I wasn't their real sister. Their treated me very special though they keep that secret to me for a long time I might feel that I have been betrayed but after thinking of too many time I find it that they are only to protect me from being hurt.
• Romania
5 Oct 10
If I would adopt a child I would also keep this a secret until if would know that he/she is truly mature to accept the truth. I wouldn't tell him/her that was adopted from a young age, because he/she would feel betrayed and get sensitive in every occasion when he/she would feel that is treated otherwise than the other children, who are bilogical. Have you ever thought about searching your real parents?
@sjhaeki (795)
• Philippines
3 Oct 10
if i did found out i was adopted and i was treated really well by my parents i'd be really thankful towards them. unlike those shows that has adopted kids rebelling and going all out on their adopted parents i won't change my treatment towards them. why would i complain if i've been treated like their real child and been treated well. i would want to know my biological parents, and the reason why they gave me up but i won't put so much importance on that. i'd be happy with the parents i have presently.
• Romania
5 Oct 10
I agree with you, I never understood why in American movies, everytime a child found out that he/she was adopted, he/she began to have negative feeling towards the adoptive parents. I think a child that finds out that was adopted has to show more appreciation to his foster parents as before. Because it is a great thing that a couple takes a child that is not biologically theirs and raise them as if he/she was their own kid.
• United States
3 Oct 10
I think that i would still love my adoptive parents like they are my real parents. I also would like to meet my real parents so that i could find out why they made the decision. If it was because they could not afford for me to have a good life, so they gave me away so that i would live better than that would probably be Ok.
@paige4evr (118)
• Estonia
3 Oct 10
I'd be shocked. It wouldn't make me love my parents any less or see them any differently, but I'd definately want to meet my real parents if at all possible.
• Romania
5 Oct 10
I think it is natural to feel a shock when finding out such news. Of course, forest parents have to be respected and shown lots of love. And it is natural to want to find out who the biological parents are, because the child inherits the physiognomy of his real parents and maybe many personality characteristics.
• Canada
3 Oct 10
you'll probably always want to know who they really are but at the end of the day you might not like what you find out. maybe your adopted parents are way better parents then you real parents ever would have been. i don't know my dad and don't get along with my mom, sometimes i wish i was adopted. maybe at least i would have felt like am loved by someone which is something i never really felt by my real parents. i say be happy with the good things you do have cause you never know what it would have been like other wise. still try to find out who they are if you like because i would like to know who my dad is, feels like there's a hole in my heart that needs to be filled. best advise i can give you hun.
• Romania
4 Oct 10
I don't know what to say, just that I am lucky because my parents have took care of me and raised me. If your mother has raised you by herself be very thankful to her, because surely it wasn't easy for her. I don't really know what to say to you. Only that I can understand that you want to know your father, because a part of who you are comes from him.
@Angelwriter (1954)
• United States
2 Oct 10
I would wonder why they felt they needed to keep it a secret, because it wouldn't be something they needed to hide. But, it wouldn't change my relationship. They'd still be my real parents -the people that took care of me and loved me as parents. I would just find out they weren't my biological parents. At the same time, I'd be very curious about my birth parents. Because they would be a part of me biologically, and I'm fascinated by family history. This would just give me two to look into. And, sure, I'd like to know more about the person who gave birth to me and what lead them to put me up for adoption. Curiosity is a pretty big trait in me.
• Romania
4 Oct 10
I think that is not good for a child to find out that he is an adopted one. He will always fell bad about things that he normally wouldn't. So I think it is better for him to grow and then the truth to be told. I always that telling the truth is very important, but the timing has to be correct as well. It is no need for the adopted child to have negative feelings for his foster parents, he should appreciate them more as if they were his biological parents.
• Philippines
3 Oct 10
Well just accept the truth so it is very important to know the real biological parents. Although their would be mixed feeling of being angry, sad and self pity I just nothing to blame the people who adopted they just save a child from misery especially if she had been abandon by the real parents or their are more deeper reasons. So just acept the fact then if the real parents still alive it is nice to keep in touch or know them and know their real reasons for giving you. Though their could be lot of blame they also have their regrets I am very sure for that the past could no longer revive just live to learn for a day..
• Romania
4 Oct 10
You are right, but if somebody gives up his/her own flesh and blood for comfortableness cannot be called a parent. If the biological one gave away the child for his/her own good, then they can be understood, but my parents and grandparents told me that if you are not able to raise a child, is a crime to conceive him. And if you really want to raise your own child up, you will succeed, just like they did. They had nothing and managed to raise two children and be respected people. They have managed to become a normal family, with a home, a car and everything a regular family needs, although they started from zero.
@ebuscat (5935)
• Philippines
3 Oct 10
For me I don't know how to react about that because i shocking part of me.
• Romania
4 Oct 10
Everybody would be shocked, it is no doubt about it.
• Philippines
3 Oct 10
Hi rappeter13! I think what is more important is the bond they have built in their lifetime together. That is, if the relationship between the young and the adoptive parents are good. The fact that the child was loved in spite of being adopted is something. Although the child might want to know who the parents really are. If the love between the adopted and the parents are strong, it might hold.
• Romania
4 Oct 10
I don't think that this a question, because foster parents have to be appreciated more because they have raised up a child that was not theirs biologically and they did a great deed to give him all he needed to become a grown up, who has a chance in life. If I would be in this position of being adopted, I would consider my foster parents as my real parents. But I would still want to know who my biological parents are, because I would inherit all my physical characteristics from them. And maybe that would help to get to know myself better.
@RRYaco_C (23)
• Philippines
3 Oct 10
will me in my own says, if i will know that they are not my real parents, but they treated me as there real daugther, never mind. but i will just ask them who is my real parents,,.. and i will also ask permation to them if they well allow me to see, and talk to my real parents. just to ask them why they left when im still young? what is there reason..... thats it..
• Romania
4 Oct 10
You are very logical, I would do the same. I would want to know who my real parents are, just to know my genetical heritage and to discover who I really am.