{"id":174470,"date":"2017-11-18T10:30:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T15:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=174470"},"modified":"2017-11-15T12:40:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T17:40:54","slug":"17-years-birth-mom-daughter-find-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/17-years-birth-mom-daughter-find-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"After 17 years, birth mom and daughter find each other on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The New York Times shared a video earlier this month of “Modern Love: Lost and Found,” viewed thousands of times on its Facebook page. The Times’ Facebook status update simply reads, “A 17-year-old girl, put up for adoption at birth, finds her biological mother on Facebook.”<\/p>\n

But the full story is, as you might expect, full of more twists and turns than could be posted in a single Facebook status update.<\/p>\n

It is the true story of author Tr\u00e9 Miller Rodr\u00edguez, who placed her daughter for adoption when she became unexpectedly pregnant as a teen. And 17 years later, her daughter (after about a year of admitted social media “stalking”) contacted her on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Rodr\u00edguez wrote in The Daily Beast<\/a> in 2013 that abortion was not an option she wanted. “My teenage brain considered the ‘situation,’ and when neither abortion nor single motherhood added up, I announced adoption,” she said, adding that her own father was adopted.\u00a0Rodr\u00edguez wrote about her choice of an adoptive family:<\/p>\n

I corresponded with potential adoptive parents and spent a long weekend in Boise with the frontrunners. Jack and Lisa aced my teenage litmus test: 30-ish homeowners with master\u2019s degrees; Christian but not culty; political views that didn\u2019t make me cringe. On Dec. 29, 1993, I went to work, left at lunch, and gave birth by nightfall. Open-adoption paperwork was signed the next day, and I placed Laurie in the arms of her ecstatic parents. There was no hesitation or regret: I knew adoption was the right decision for her\u2014and for me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n