Tag Archives: Adoption

Approaching Your Adoptive Parents About the Search

If you can’t see the video above click here. I’ve been asked this question a lot recently: “How do I talk to my adoptive parents about looking for my birth parents?” Obviously this is a sensitive subject and I do … Continue reading

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In Adoption and Life, You Are Not Alone

Saturday Night’s Dinner Those of you who been following the Facebook page know that this past Saturday I had a dinner with other Salvadoran adoptees. It was a great event. I met some new people and reconnected with some old … Continue reading

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A Couple of Updates

Our Network Grows A couple months ago I wrote about how myself and other Salvadoran adoptees are working to build a support network for Salvadoran adoptees looking for their families. As I said in the post, people adopted from El … Continue reading

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RIP Senator Ted Kennedy – by Derek

This past week, on August 25th (a day with some significance for us to begin with) the world lost a great man, Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. Others have already given much more fitting eulogies to his accomplishments, but I … Continue reading

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How the Internet Helped Me Reunite With My Birth Family

Background I was born in El Salvador, and my parents were revolutionaries in the civil war. I was separated from my family and adopted by Americans. I grew up here not knowing anything about my past. In 1997 I was … Continue reading

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