If you were adopted, would you want to meet your birth mom?

Well that would depend upon the incentive for wanting to find out.

If you think that is going to be a rosy experience and everything will turn out all right, don't do it.

Sometimes it can turn out negatively, maybe the mother and/or father deliberately did adopt the child because they didn't want children. I have heard of cases turn out like this and it is a double banger for the adopted child, e.g not only were they rejected once, but they are rejected again.

These adopted children are better off appreciating the fact that they did get replacement mum and/or dads that truly loved them for who and what they were. If anything, at least they got replacement parents, unlike most adopted children. As the saying goes "be happy and grateful for what you have got and stop searching for things you didn't get."

On the other hand, it can turn out to be a pleasant experience, but in a way you need to be prepared for the worse case scenario just in case, because it might just happen.

Well that is my take on the topic... good luck in making a decision, I am sure you will choose what is right for you.

No, I guess because I know someone who went through this and they found their birth mother was a very terrible person and she had 1/2 brother and sisters who bothered her for money for the rest of her life. It was not very nice... and her drugged up birth mother started showing up at her place for crack money.

Sometimes there is a good reason why you were adopted or given up.

Yes, I would want to ask alot of questions about why I was up for adoption. Plus I know the birth mom has always wondered about the baby. Would be scary, but I'm sure it would be worth it.

I'm not adopted but my sister was. If I was adopted, yes, I would like to know my birth mother. A lot of people think that parents adopt kids out because they don't want them but that's not the case. My father was a drug addict and my mom saw that he wasn't a father to me so why would he be one to my sister so she adopted her to a couple that would love her and give her a life she couldn't have with our family.

Depends on the environment that I am living in. If I had a loving family I dont think I would unless I needed to find out if there were any medical information I need. If I had a rough upbringing in my foster family I think I would.

I dont know though - that's just my thoughts.

I think so, yes. I believe that a person has a right to know their origins, and to access information about themselves and who they are.

Personally I think I would have questions that I'd want answered (not in a negative way, more curious) and I'd hope to be able to set my natural mother's mind at rest that I was ok and had had a (hopefully) good life.

Hope that helps!

I maybes would want to see who they wer and see what they look like and ask y they didnt want me but then i prob wouldnt take it further just cos id spent my life without them and have my own family, it would then be their loss and not mine....but im not adopted so in the situation it may be different.

Yes I would because there could be some medical information I might need at some point in my life.

Thousands of adoptees are searching for their birthparents everyday. I've been searching for over 10 years myself (with no luck).

yes I would because I would want to know about where I came from