The connection a child has with a mother is powerful even if that connection comes later in life.
Now, the rise of DNA testing services is bringing long-lost mothers and children together for emotional reunions.
Most peoples first desire is to know their mother; searching for fathers often comes much later.
Meet four mothers who placed babies for adoption and were reunited decades later thanks to DNA testing.
I always prayed he was in a good place with a good family, says Lloyd, 69.
We thought he was better off but there was still kind of an ache in my heart.
Matt Robertson, 50, learned he was adopted in the fifth grade.
He called the revelation crushing and set out to find his birth mom when he was in college.
Robertson even hired a private investigator.
But when the investigation didnt turn up any leads, he gave up.
The questioning led to Lloyd.
It happened so fast.
Even though I was looking for her, I wasnt quite prepared.
Lloyd was surprised when she learned that her firstborn son was looking for her.
I never dreamed Id ever see him, Lloyd says.
Although she was excited about the possibility of connecting, Lloyd also worried about what the revelation might mean.
We sat down to have a beer and we were just staring at each other, Robertson recalls.
They talk frequently and Robertsons siblings have welcomed him to the family.
Isaacs couldnt ask his adoptive mother, who suffered fromdementia, to fill in the blanks.
Isaacs sent a handwritten note to his half-sister with his contact information.
During their first phone call in August 2021, Isaacs learned Molly had spent 20 years searching for him.
I always thought of him and wondered how and where he was and how his life turned out.
