Tag: ADOPTION

Share We've seen Facebook facilitate several parent-child reunions, but few of these feel-good stories have been quite as incredible as Jutta Fairley's. When Fairley was 19-years old, she became pregnant while still living with her family in Germany. At the time, her parents forced her to make a difficult choice: either moving out of the house, or giving the baby up for adoption. Fairley chose ...

Trend story or bona fide trend? The Guardian reports that the birth parents of adopted children are flocking to Facebook to locate and contact their descendants. The article claims that, at least in the U.K., two-thirds of adopted children are removed from their birth parents due to abuse or neglect; and now "huge numbers" of adoptive parents are reporting that their children are being contacted ...

Ebony Keck was given up for adoption when she was two-years-old, and has wondered about the family from which she was separated ever since. Almost 20 years later, the young Pennsylvania woman is set to reunite with her birth family, all because of a simple, instant Web search. Keck currently lives with a friend's grandmother, and one day, because she was "just bored," she decided to google ...

MySpace is great for getting you connected with other people for a variety of purposes, some good, some not so much. You can add adoption to the "good" list: It turns out a couple in Michigan is actually using the service to find a little girl to adopt. Sherry and Karl Dittmar, of Taylor, Michigan, hope that by tapping into MySpace's huge volume of people, they'll find some Web-savvy mother-to-be ...