Adoption Reunion Offers Closure

Kathylu Szabo spent 10 days with her son. She held him, nursed him, loved him and let him go. Twenty-five years passed before she saw him again. On Friday, her son, Demetrius Brice, sat next to her, jumping up to fetch her a tissue when tears overflowed as she spoke of their reunion. The pair were guests at a Catholic Charities Adoption Reunion Celebration. The event honored the three parts of the adoption triad: birth moms, adoptive moms and adoptees. “It was hard,” Szabo said of the choice she made. “I was 35, single and barely able to support myself. I figured he’d do better in a two-parent household.” Brice had always wondered about his birth mom. He recalls searching strangers’ faces on the street and wondering is she my mother? “My biggest thing was I just wanted to know what she looked like,” he said/ Cindy Hval , SR. More here. (Colin Mulvany SR photo)

Question: Are you or anyone in your family adopted? Do you think adoption reunions are a good thing?