Preparation for Finding Family

For everyone concerned in the adoption, finding birth family is indeed a major event in their life. It has a great influence, and no one can guarantee that searching for birth family will always leads to a happy ending. Even if you have taken times and effort to be well-preparation, you need to have courage to face all kinds of possibilities once you decide to start searching. Therefore, we still want to help you prepare more before you take the action.

Who relinquish you for adoption is real birth parent

1. Do you know or ever thought about what are reasons that relinquish you for adoption? Is there any of reasons you cannot accept? If the birth family refuses to meet you, what would you think about it? And are you ready for this?
2. Are you ready to reunite with birth parents? When will you plan to return to Taiwan? If you want to keep in touch with your birth family, would you like to contact them through the center or by yourself?
3. Who are you looking for in your birth family? Parents, siblings or other relatives?
4. What kinds of information would you like to share with your birth family?  Birth families of Taiwan usually ask your work, marital status, whether you have been taken good care of, whether your adoptive parents are currently well, or whether they know about your searching of the birth family.
5. If there is no response from your birth family, what is your follow-up plan? Will you hope that the center continues to contact your family, visit them, or stop searching for them? Would you like to show your information of searching for the birth family on Facebook or the website of the center?

If you were a trafficked baby?

1. Have you ever thought about the reasons of birth parents relinquish you for adoption? How much do you know about the case of infant trafficking? Do you know the agency or intermediary that had assisted your adoptive parents to adopt you? How had your adoption been accomplished? Have the adoptive parents ever seen your birth parents?
2. Do you have any adoption papers? What kinds of adoption papers is?  Would it be possible for you to get more information about your adoption from the narrative of the adoptive parents?
3. Are you prepared for that you may be unable to find your birth family?
4. Would  you like to leave a DNA report for verification beforehand in case a possible birth family show up?
5. Would you like to show your information of searching for the birth family on Facebook or the website of the center? Have you ever thought about finding them via the media if there isn't any response from your birth family? What are your main concerns or worries to the searching via the media?

If it is a parentage fraud

1. Do you understand what is parentage fraud? Have you ever thought why your birth parents relinquish you for adoption through a parentage fraud?
2. How much do your adoptive parents or relatives know about the situation when you are adopted? Would it be possible for you to collect more information that is relevant to your adoption or the birth family?
3. How much information of your birth family do you have now? For example: Where may they live? Their last name? How many siblings do you have? Or who introduced you birth parents to the adoption intermediary? More information will be more help to your searching of the birth family.
4. In what ways will you be willing to use to find your birth family?
5. Would you like to show your information of searching for the birth family on Facebook or the website of the center? Have you ever thought about finding them via the media if there isn't any response from your birth family? What are your main concerns or worries to the searching via the media?

If you were a foundling

1. Do your adoptive parent know why you were relinquished for adoption? Were you adopted through an agency? Do you have information and documents related to your adoption?
2. Are you prepared for that you may be unable to find your birth family?
3. Would you like to leave a DNA report for verification beforehand if a possible birth family show up?
4. Do you want to look for person who has taken care of you, like a foster family or a babysitter? Are there are other people you want to look for as well?
5. In what ways will you be willing to find your birth family?
6. Would you like to show your information of searching for the birth family on Facebook or the website of the center? Have you ever thought about finding them via the media if there isn't any response from your birth family? What are your main concerns or worries to the searching via the media?