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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1981
Page
27
Ruth Cornick of Iowa City formed Adoptees' Quest to help search for biological parents. The group, 15 members strong, assists adoptees and educates adoptive parents about why searches occur and plans to affiliate with the national Orphan Voyage.
Corrick, raised in a small Iowa town, reflecting on her life as an adoptee, explains the intense need to know her birthparents sparked by her son Jade’s birth in 1978. She values her adoptive mother while acknowledging a persistent sense of separation and the ache of blood kinship.
Cornick argues many adoptive parents block searching while birthparents feel grateful yet remorseful. She says medical history and agency walls drive reunions, with 94 percent success for birthparents and 92 percent for children. Adoptees face fear yet press on, and Cornick notes ongoing contact with her biological mother and possible reunion dynamics.
Through contacting her biological mother Cornick learns her background and gains four half sisters two of whom she has met. She discovers her son has Irish and Welsh heritage and feels comfort from understanding her history though uncertain how her new family fits.
Cathy, a mother in a heartfelt search, gave up her newborn son for adoption when she was 17. Through years of reflection and family pressure, she longs to reconnect as her son nears age 11, while an incident with her fiancé delays contact and keeps hopes alive.
Cathy deeply misses her son and longs for contact after a year of waiting. She describes loneliness, guilt, and nights spent crying, and started attempting contact through letters with the help of a social service agency. She hopes for a supervised meeting with her son and his adoptive parents, followed by time alone, to show love and build a relationship.
A Cedar Rapids woman known only as Karen shares joy at becoming a mother at nineteen. She was single and pregnant, discovering later that the baby’s father is married, a revelation she says changed everything.
Karen gave up her baby for adoption after birth hoping for a stable home. Years laterSusan sought out her natural mother and the two families connected through a social service agency. The reunion deepened as Karen met Susan and her relatives, with ongoing contact ever since.
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