How many percent of adopted people look for their biological parent?

Question

How many percent of adopted people look for their biological parent?

Answer 1

about 90 percent

Answer 2

Per the American Adoption Congress 1996 survey:

- 65 percent of adopted adolescences wanted to meet their natural parents

- 60 to 90 percent of adoptees wanted to obtain identifying information

- Between 2 and 4 percent of all adoptees were searching in the year 1990

These statistics indicate that searching is a typical part of life for many adoptees.

Answer 3

One Hundred Percent.  Hear me out.

ALL adoptees engage in a search process.   It may not be a LITERAL search, but is a search.  it begins when the child first asks "Why did it happen?" "Who are they?" and "Where are they now?"  These questions may be asked out loud, or they may make up a more private form of searching - questions that are examined only in the solitude of self-reflection.

Answer 4

You know a lot of adopted people don't search out of guilt.

I would have never searched out of guilt, but my adoptive mother was loving enough to give me my records.

Some adoptive parents are really loving.

Answer 5

75 percent

Answer 6

Found this here: http://statistics.adoption.com/informati...

"    * In a study of American adolescents, the Search Institute found that 72 percent of adopted adolescents wanted to know why they were adopted, 65 percent wanted to meet their birth parents, and 94 percent wanted to know which birth parent they looked like. (American Adoption Congress, 1996)

    * The psychological literature has established that the desire of 60 to 90 percent of adoptees wanting to obtain identifying information regarding their biological parents is a normative aspect of being adopted. (American Adoption Congress, 1996) "

Answer 7

Really?!!  90%???

Really?

I had no idea.

Can you provide a source for that number?

And how many of those adoptees actually find their first families?

That was a really good question!