Birth Parent Search
While living in Romania, we have had many opportunities to provide help for families in North America and around the world who are searching for birth parents of Romanian children adopted after the revolution in 1989. We ourselves have reunited our son Catlan with his birth family.
Below is an article written by Coreen in 1998 about that experience. If you are interested in looking for the birth parents of a child adopted in Romania, please contact us at mail@hftn.ro
July 20th, 1998
Reunited and it feels so good!
Yesterday my son Catlan met his birth mother. Let me tell you it was a wonderful thing. If you could have seen the look of love she has for him it would have brought you to tears. As we pulled up in our van I could see her approaching us, searching for Catlan. Catlan and I were the last to get out of the van. She came up and swept him into her arms, and she wept. What a loving tender moment it was. I could see nine years of pent up emotion pouring out of her.... wow.
Reunited and it feels so good!
Yesterday my son Catlan met his birth mother. Let me tell you it was a wonderful thing. If you could have seen the look of love she has for him it would have brought you to tears. As we pulled up in our van I could see her approaching us, searching for Catlan. Catlan and I were the last to get out of the van. She came up and swept him into her arms, and she wept. What a loving tender moment it was. I could see nine years of pent up emotion pouring out of her.... wow.
I thought what a gift this is to these two people. At that moment I knew that Mark and I had made the right decision to reunite mother and son. When she put him down and we hugged I could see that she could not take her eyes off of him. She looked so pretty dressed in her best dress. It made me glad that we had missed her the night before when we had stopped in to surprise her. But she had been in another town visiting a friend. It had given her an opportunity to prepare to see her son.
As you can imagine there were all sorts of relatives and friends at the house. We went into the house and Catlan was introduced to his siblings Florentina(7),Vasile(3) and Valeria(9 months), as well as his Grandparents. We took lots of photos and gifts were exchanged all around. I felt like Catalina (birth mum) might like to spend some time alone with Catlan so I suggested that she take him outside and look at the farm animals.
She eagerly agreed......off they walked hand in hand. A little later we all went outside as well, at one point I looked over and Catlan was sitting with his little brother Vasile on a log and from a distance it looked like Catlan was giving him big brotherly advice (never mind that they don't speak the same language), I pointed it out to Catalina and she got a big smile on her face. We stayed for about an hour, we told Catalina that we would come again on Catlan's birthday she was thrilled. She thanked us for allowing her to see her son.
I had the feeling that this day was the beginning of healing for many people, restoration it's a good thing.
I am a firm believer that just as a mother can love more than one child, a child can love more than one mother. In a little village called Horia there is a house and in that house there are some people that we joyfully call FAMILY.
Coreen.
I am a firm believer that just as a mother can love more than one child, a child can love more than one mother. In a little village called Horia there is a house and in that house there are some people that we joyfully call FAMILY.
Coreen.
