Adoptive parents gave love, care

To the editor:

I just read a lovely story about the Tri Sigma sorority helping one of its members in her search for her adoptive parents. As a Tri Sigma alumni, I was very proud. But as an adopted child, I felt I should express another viewpoint on adoption.

I was adopted as an infant and told from the beginning about my adoption. The most amazing parents a child could ever ask for raised me, and I don't share the young woman's void and need to find the missing part of me. My parents instilled in me a strong sense of self and pride in myself that wasn't based on genetics. It came from a father who worked long hours at a difficult job so I could have everything I needed in life. It came from a mother who sat up with me at night as a colicky infant and loved me through those crazy teenage years. It came from the dad who cried walking me down the aisle at my wedding, and the parents who beamed with pride when I graduated medical school last spring.

Now I'm a pediatric resident in Indianapolis, and I'm reminded on daily basis that anyone can create a child, but it takes much more than that to be a mom and dad. I thank God every day that my biological parents recognized their inability to be a mom and dad, and the only thing I long to do is thank them.

ANGELA FORNKOHL BLUM, Indianapolis