Had a great result for a client this morning, it’s one of those cases that make you feel like you’ve made a real difference to someones life. Obviously I can’t go into too much detail but it was a tale of adoption and a single mother that started many years ago. As often is the case, the child knows they are adopted but feel a very strong loyalty to their adoptive parent and don’t try and find out other information until their adoptive parents are no longer with us or is done with their blessing.
To
be able to call or email someone to say ‘we have some information for you’ is the part of my job I love most. The commonest reaction is often disbelieve as people will have often searched themselves before contacting Detective Denise, although things have changed a little with the dawning of the Adoption Act 2002.
Sometimes making contact with birth realatives needs to be done in a very sensitive way. The adoption might have been a secret and contact out of the blue can often turn someones world upside down for a time.
