I adopted two little ones from India, my son is eleven, my daughter is four.  If they ever want to go back and try to find their biological families I will support that however I can.  Sadly there was no information about their birth families.

I am their "real family", at least for as long as they want me to be.  They owe me nothing, and I owe them everything.  I love them more than I love life itself.

The realities of poverty hits hard for people who grew up unfamiliar with it.

Many shady orphanages were faking the identities of parents because children were stolen from their parents, as international adoption was a lucrative business.

these comments are disappointing. they have every right to go out and search for the people who brought them into this world, Leaving them to look for their biological parents does not depict their love for their adoptive parents. we don't know who they are, how they were brought up with their adoptive parents so i feel it's nobody's right to call them ungrateful and unloving. have some compassion for people.

Someone needs to start database/collection where all these adopted from India can upload DNA and be matched up with any cousins etc that might be adopted as well

The second girl I felt it! And I understand her frustration because essentially she’s been staring at a “fake” picture for 28 years of her life making a connection with the woman in that pic. IMH most likely just provided a picture for the UK 🇬🇧 adoption form and like the other lady said the woman in the picture worked in the kitchen and worked in the store room - most likely they just pulled the curtain and told her to stand there whilst they took a pic (and she just complied). The ladies who worked for IMH obviously couldn’t say too much and things were so so different 28 years ago- and Indian mindset is different, though they couldn’t provide her with much info they are looking at her like just stop…you’re living a privileged life which is all they would have asked for her. I do hope..you find more info xxxx

Jeez, finding out your mom and brother died right there all at once is brutal

I adopted a baby and 30 years later, she found her birth mom. They communicated through letters sent to a Mediator Agency. But the ending was sad. The birth mother told my daughter that she could not wreck her life by revealing the past to her husband and adult children. The End 😢 The great news is that my daughter married has a beautiful life and her children were raised with love. Adopted children are blessed when they have been raised in loving homes. Embrace the hearts of the parents who loved and nurtured the babies and children as their own sons and daughters ❤

These women are so blessed to have grown up in affluent families, loved and nurtured. No one can have it all. We should all be thankful.

The younger woman looking for her mom only thought of how sad it is that women had to give away their babies, but did not consider the implications of  pregnant 13-year old girls, who were probably raped.

To assume the circumstances surrounding a married, wealthy businessman impregnating his impoverished housemaid was some sort of “fairy tale” or “romantic love story” is incredibly naïve.

It just angers me when Origin refers to birth families / parents as “real” families/ parents. This isn’t the first time!mThere’s a difference between biological and real families. Adoptive parents are REAL parents and REAL family. FULL STOP.

Why so many people have a problem with an adult wanting to know where she came from? Like what?! she’s grown and make her own decision

Burying another person on the same grave is common here. Because there is not much space. You need to be rich to keep your grave.

Perfect examples of opening Pandora’s Box.    Very sad for both women to not finding their parents but the lies made it far worse.

I am sorry to see these women struggling to find their biological families but I see the silver lining that they were able to escape poverty and live a good life abroad. Also, the NGOs that facilitated adoptions, I believe the priority was to send the kids out ASAP, even if it was fake documents.

I'm mixed race and as a baby I was adopted by a mixed race couple in the late 1960's. After my adopted mother died when I was 8, my adopted Trinidadian dad raised me on his own. I contacted Kilroy Silk when I was 21 to trace my biological mom although they failed to find her, I found her myself. After meeting her and my other younger full siblings, I thanked God that I was adopted. I havent seen or spoken to any of them in 35 years and I wouldnt have it any other way. My adoption was a blessing.

I found my mother father after 70 year  it is very hard I know sad sad I know the deep pain

She is right to be angry. I hope she finds peace.

This was absolutely devastating. Snot and tears here, all the way from Australia. God bless these women, and all others like them, and may they find peace.