Hong Kong woman adopted as baby hunts for biological family after almost 60 years stifling impulse to trace them
- Lam Sui-fun, 68, said Hong Kong Red Cross helped her to start process of tracing biological family last year
- Suspicion that she was adopted were confirmed when she was 10; wants to meet biological brothers and sisters at Mid-Autumn Festival
But the 68-year-old said on Thursday her fears were not confirmed until she was 10 and found a letter in her father’s document case written by her biological father, where he consented to give the newborn up for adoption because of poverty.
“I felt that I was very miserable. I really miss my birth parents. I just remember how the letter said my biological father had too many children and had no money to raise me,” Lam said as she fought back tears. “I had questions like ‘was he really this poor that he was not able to raise me’?”
“When I was older and had my own child, it was difficult for me to be apart from my baby even when I was simply leaving for work. I cannot understand how my birth mother could give me away,” she added.
Lam said she thought of confronting her adoptive parents, but backed off after her mother became emotional when she broached the subject.
