Advertisement

We need your help now

Support from readers like you keeps The Journal open.

You are visiting us because we have something you value. Independent, unbiased news that tells the truth. Advertising revenue goes some way to support our mission, but this year it has not been enough.

If you've seen value in our reporting, please contribute what you can, so we can continue to produce accurate and meaningful journalism. For everyone who needs it.

€2 a Month €5 a Month One-off amount

# adoption stories

All time
'Imagine someone clicked their fingers and you had no family or history, that's the reality for thousands of us'
6 Apr 2021
13.6k
16
'My mother gave birth to three children in three mother and baby homes in three years'
19 Feb 2021
51.4k
Aged 61, actor discovers he was adopted: 'I went from being an only child to the eldest of seven'
26 Jan 2016
48.0k
32
"Meeting my birth father for the first time was really a unique experience."
19 Jan 2016
14.7k
25
'If I was a scientist I'd invent a time machine, and go visit my birth mother'
5 Jan 2016
15.4k
6
'It's like looking at myself in drag' - adopted brother and sister reunited after 40 years
9 Jul 2015
33.5k
19
This woman thought she had found her birth mother's family, but it wasn't what it seemed
25 Jun 2015
34.6k
14