More adoptee episodes in different TV shows this week.

For example, there is the adoptee who commits murder to get part of her biological inheritance on a Law & Order. The DA makes some comment about how this is why records should be sealed. Then there is the Without a Trace episode where the kid disappeared and they discovered he was a young adoptee whose birthday had just passed (and normally he is such a happy kid) and found his birthdad, although it wasn’t his birthdad because the agents found out he had died. Instead, it was a child molestor.

Then there was the Law & Order Criminal Intent episode I watched last night. It centered around young woman who had disappeared after her parents were killed and they believed she was having an affair with a married man. Turns out the man was her biological father who was still having an affair with the biological mother after 20 years. In the end it turns out that the biological parents arranged for the adoptive parents to be killed so the girl could inheret the 3 million dollars from her adoptive family and were then going to arrange for her to be killed as well. The bio-dad hadn’t signed relinquishment papers so he would become the beneficiary of her estate.

So I learned the following from these and other shows with adoptees:

1. Open records are bad because angry adoptees will kill people.
2. Searching is bad because bad things will happen.
3. Birthparents are just bad in general.

Okay, that was way over-simplification with a bit of tunnel-vision and a slight “tint to the glasses” interpretation of it. I wish I could write a show where the adoptee searches, reunites, goes thru the honeymoon session and still survives, grows closer to the adoptive family and the biological family and finds a way to incorporate both into their lives. Granted, I can barely write a blog that actually expresses my feelings but I am working on that one. :grin:
I will give kudos though to the writer of Goram’s last line. As the woman sits with the ashes of her dead parents in her lap, she begins to say it’s all her fault and Goram replies that it isn’t her fault, she did nothing wrong. All she did was try to find out what any kid would want to know, where they came from.

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