How To Find Birth Parents
About 2% of the U.S. population is adopted. 6 million Americans is a lot of Americans, and many of them don’t know who their birth parents are. Finding your birth parents can help teach you about your cultural, national, and social background. Finding your birth parents can be a rewarding experience. There are other reasons to find your birth parents besides emotional reasons. You may want to find your parents for medical reasons, learn about life events in your family’s history, or find out why you were adopted.
The first thing to do when finding out the identities of your birth parents are is to find out their names. In order to find out that, you need to write down everything you know about your birth and adoption, from the name of the hospital, the agency that handled your adoption, to any legal documents that your non-biological parents may have.
Gather non-identifying information from the agency or state that handled your adoption because these clues can lead you to who your birth parents were. Non-identifying information is like health status, ethnic history, and religion. These can be important markers along the way to finding the identity of your birth parents.
Another step you can do is to register in state and national reunion registries. These allow each member of an adoption to register so that prospective adoptees and the person who gave up the child for adoption can be matched.
These steps should ensure that you have a very high likelihood of finding your birth parents.