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Podcast: Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories
Episode: Ruth: A Mother Searches for a Mother
Description: Ruth Bendig is a “Baby Scoop Era” domestic adoptee. The oldest of her adoptiveparents' three children, she and her brothers were all relinquished as infants and raised in the Midwest.Becoming a mother jump-started a desire to learn more about her biological history.WIth the support and encouragement of her adoptive parents she began to search, first through the state, then, when that proved to be a dead end, through DNA testing. She is now in reunion with siblings and cousins on both sides of her biological family.Also in this episode, Sara...