Family Ties

Joan Oleck wrote an amazing story about her daughter from Russia and how Joan cherished the bond with her daughter’s birth parents. She would write to them and connect with them. The adoption was a forever act and a part of that was knowing what her daughter would have faced if her family would have parented her. Through writing with the birth family, Joan discovered that her daughter’s siblings had been adopted close by. She reached out to them to establish a bond for her daughter that most internationally adopted children do not get. Please read the article to see the full emotional journey Joan and her daughter’s birth family traveled together.