Readers' Blog: Plight of adoptees searching for parents

Over the last 20 years, I have written many letters, especially to the Irish Examiner concerning the plight and frustration of adult adoptees attempting to trace their birth families.

Most of my angst was focused on church-run adoption agencies who in my opinion did everything in their power to hinder such reunions taking place. As Mike Milotte stated in his brilliantly researched book on the export of Irish babies to the USA (Banished Babies), “deny till die” was the guiding principle of the day. Various ministers over the years dragged their heals while