I thought I had written about this before but I can't find the post so maybe I didn't. Today I viewed part of the movie Philomena. If you have never see bit, it is about a woman who got pregnant when she was a teenager in Ireland. In those days girls were taken to convents or homes for unwed mothers. These places kept the girls until they gave birth. As soon as the babies were born, the child was ripped from the mother and adopted out. Many times to American families. There was no consent, no paperwork in many cases. Many of the girls were cast out by their families. Philomena was one of these girls and she decided to go in search of her son in America.
Years ago I had a volunteer who found out from his adopted parents that he was born in Ireland. Little by little the story came out that he was a baby born to a teenage mom in a convent home for unwed mothers. He did some searching and found his mom. She came over from Ireland. It is was so interesting to be his friend while he went through this process. He was so brave. It must have been so hard to learn all this information and then meet your biological mother.
Until tomorrow...
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