Adopted son meets birth mum after 58 years
"It was the first time I was able to see myself in my mother's eyes," said TimothyTimothy Welch was one of the thousands of babies who were given up for adoption from a mother and baby home in the 1960s.
"A lot of it goes back to identity as a person over the years. I wondered who I was, certain personality traits that were different from my adoptive family."A counsellor said to me that after people's adoptive parents die they often re-open the curiosity about their own heritage because we are all searching for connection.
The 62-year-old explained unmarried mums applied to go there to give birth and their babies were adopted - often forcibly. "One mum made a toy for her baby to have when they were taken, but as she wasn't told when they were taken, she never got to give it to them," she said. "An extra bonus for me was meeting Chris's partner, Amanda, and Greg's partner, Gemma, and some of their children who are all lovely."
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