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What if adoptees don’t want to find their birth parents? For the filmmaker Tomas Ponsteen, who was adopted from Brazil and raised in the Netherlands, the question is a complicated one. He loves his parents and doesn’t feel a strong desire to find his birth mother. But learning about abuses in the adoption system makes him wonder if he does have some kind of obligation to reach out. He connects with a mother in Brazil—not his own—whose child was taken from her and adopted out under false pretense
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What if adoptees don’t want to find their birth parents? For the filmmaker Tomas Ponsteen, who was adopted from Brazil and raised in the Netherlands, the question is a complicated one. He loves his parents and doesn’t feel a strong desire to find his birth mother. But learning about abuses in the adoption system makes him wonder if he does have some kind of obligation to reach out. He connects with a mother in Brazil—not his own—whose child was taken from her and adopted out under false pretense
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