United Kingdom.- A man upon learning the reasons for having been given up for adoption 58 years ago, He managed to meet his biological mother, June Mary Phelps, who gave birth in the UK, was 18 years old.
Between 1950 and 1980, in a home located in England, they dedicated themselves to receiving single mothers, after they gave birth, they gave the babies up for adoption, for which almost half a million newborns were separated from their mothers in the United Kingdom .
It is said that they pressured young single mothers to give up their children for adoption because they did not have financial support and disapproved of raising children if they were single. Among those babies is Timothy Welch, who was separated from his biological mother at six weeks old.
Timothy Welch grew up with his adoptive parents, although he never felt the need to meet his biological parents, since the people who raised him always filled him with love, and made him feel special.
“My adoptive parents always told me ‘you were special, you came to us in a different way’. They couldn’t have their own kids, so they started the adoption process, and at 36, they adopted me,” Timothy described.
Likewise, as he grew up, he wondered who he really was, because his personality traits did not resemble those of his adoptive family.
Welch, at 59, is a renowned London professor, he never felt the need to look for his parents, as he was happy, but when his adoptive parents died, Bill in 2018 and Eunice in 2020, he considered locating them, “as an adopted son You always think about investigating your biological family, but acting or not accordingly is something else”.
One day while reviewing family photos, he found the place where he was born, when investigating Yateley Heaven, on Facebook he saw a group of people who did there, after requesting to enter the group since it was closed, they asked him his story.
Penny Green, group administrator and social worker, contacted Timothy, learning his story and He explained the circumstances of the women who gave birth back then in the UK.
Therefore, upon learning the circumstances of why he was given up for adoption, he contacted the General Registry Office, who gave him a copy of his birth, for which he located his biological mother, June Mary Phelps.
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Finally, the professor contacted his biological siblings, and told his mother details of his life, “I feel very lucky to have known them at this stage of our lives. and I’m going to really enjoy getting to know them and their respective families,” the BBC reported.
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