orchid, I appreciate your thougths and comments about my chldren. I really do. And I agree with you about my son, and also my daughter researching thier roots later in life. I have this feeling that should my son marry, it might be with his wife that he begins his search. Maybe around the time he has children, if he does. I'm hoping to do my daughter's search with her. It's one of my dreams becasue i think she would embrace meeting her birth mother, especially. She was also with a foster mom for a couple months. She arrived in Korea at three months so she wasn't with her for long. We have a picture of her with her foster mother, and when she was young, she loved that photo. It's framed and in her room. Due to the regulations of foreign adoption, I believe she could meet the foster mother, but probably not her birth mother.

I've read a lot about foreign adoption; about the kids who are adopted and how they often feel that need to connect with their birth parents. I totally get it, and it often saddens me that my kids haven't had, and may never be able to have that connection. My heart also aches for thier birth mothers and fathers.

Sorry to hijack the thread.