20-year-old has sweet reunion with his birth mom after she messaged him online l GMA
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 พ.ค. 2022
- “Benjamin is super lucky to have all of these people in his life that love him,” Benjamin’s adopted mom, Angela, said after he met his entire biological family.
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I have a lot of respect for this woman. Being just 15, she probably knew she couldn't give him what he deserved in life, so she made the ultimate sacrifice. I'm so glad they reunited.
Me too
It truly is the ultimate sacrifice. So happy that they got to reunite and be a part of each other’s lives now. 💗
Respect a woman for giving up her child ?
@@jesuslover5968 - Why? Are you saying she doesn’t deserve respect for realizing that she was just too young to provide her baby the life she wanted him to have? That she was still technically a child herself at only 15. Would she deserve respect if she had an abortion instead?
I would imagine that would be the toughest decision a mother could make for her child in giving him up to someone who could provide at the time what she couldn’t. And keep in mind, we don’t know how she conceived him. But regardless, she made the best choice for her and her baby. Every women should be afforded the same choice over her autonomy, regardless of the situation.
@@TaraVon white people activities
I love adoptive parents that are honest with their kids don't lie to your kids just be age appropriately honest with them about everything
Most don't now. It was 50 years ago when it was considered taboo to tell your child. However, I grew up in the 1960's and remember kids I went to school that were adopted and knew it because they told it; but I also knew a set of twins that were who never said anything. Their mother had told my mom and My mom said for me not to tell in case they did not know.
I'm glad for him and his biological mom; the adoptive parents are absolutely courageous and full of love for their son to bring this all together.
They are the real parents not this random person who just pops up out of no where tf..
@@abolisher Look @ it from the biological mom's perspective having to give up the baby you let grow inside you and gave birth too. You can't discredit her being a real parent by making the real parent decision to give him up. The hardest thing you will ever have to do is let go of your child in any capacity. Either that be for adoption or losing them in death. For all you know you might be adopted. Now THAT would be the ultimate pun to your post kid. 🤣
glad they had a good reunion. not all birth parents or adopted children receive that same positive response.
I also have this story. In 1994 I had a son and placed him up for adoption. In 2011 I found him on Facebook. We have been in each other's lives since.💗
My son recently did 23and me and found my 1/2 siblings and brother. I'm very grateful to my son for taking the test.
Should have kept your legs closed. You think you’re a good person? You would be out of mine under penalty of death if you kept bothering me!
@Cian MacGana 😂
What a beautiful story. Benjamin was born from a loving mother and selflessly given to a loving family. Both mothers are so thoughtful, compassionate, and caring. They all clearly had the absolute best intentions for Ben. 🤍🤍🤍
Well said. I am so happy for all of them.
ya now he has two moms.
This just happened to my family THIS WEEKEND!! We met a cousin that no one knew about! My uncle had a baby at 18 that he never knew about. He passed away last year but we have surrounded her with love and support. I never thought this would happen to my family.
Your uncle passed away without ever knowing he had a daughter
@@yayacentella Sadly yes. However my uncle's are identical twins and she has met her father's twin. Kinda cool.
Wow she is about the same age as me. I can’t imagine being a mother of a 20 year old already and I certainly can’t imagine being pregnant at 15. She certainly made a loving decision to place her son for adoption.
At that age, she should have been doing what normal kids are doing. No wonder there is so many serial and mass shootings in the world. Many come from dysfunctional homes with an absent father or from a mother that gave them up. In the kids mind they are nothing.
That is NOT a loving decision but okay
@@abolisher Oh yes it was because a 15 year old is not mature enough for the responsibilities of motherhood. It was the best thing she could have done for him allowing him to be adopted by a couple who desperately wanted a child. There is no mention either of his birth father or if her parents were willing to help her, so chances are, if she had kept him, she would have been on her own. she may have had no choice.
@@backagain5216 We do not know the backstory. For all we know she had a wonderful family but was raped. I was almost snatched at 13, walking home from school, and I lived in a decent neighborhood. Thankfully the woman who lived in the house I was in front of heard me scream and ran out of her house, and screamed at the man and he took off. BTW, this was over 50 years ago when it was still considered safe to walk home from school. Stop judging.
@@peachygal4153 Sorry for your news but the facts are the facts. Sex is cheap today sadly. This ain’t 50 years ago either.
This reminds me a lot of my dad's adoption story! Except he was in his 30s; I was 4 or 5 years old at the time. I'm so thankful to have his birth mother in our lives! She even flew out to help care for his adoptive mom when his adoptive mom was undergoing treatment for cancer and I cried on her shoulder at my dad's adoptive mom's funeral.
The happiest past, present, and future every birth mother and adopted child pray for. I hope for more stories like this! 🙏🏾
i can kinda relaite but not really. Oyinbo family disowned me at birth. it was hard of my soul
As a mom I would be so freaking thankful to the adoptive family for taking so good care of my child and raise him to be a beautiful, loving and understanding person
Such a beautiful family, adopted and biological. I have so much respect for Holly, finding him at 18 and deciding to wait until his life settled down a bit. Truly selfless.
you can tell that this son had a really great parents because he’s even reminding other adoptees at the end like just because it worked out for me doesn’t mean that will be your story but everybody has one
The biological mother is so happy that she chose life for her baby even though it was so difficult to give him up. Now she can have a relationship with him. I am so happy for her (and him!) that they reconnected. What an amazing adoptive family to be so supportive and kind. Just a great uplifting story.
Wow what a text!!!Cried all through this!!🥰
Our adopted son just turned 20. He wasn’t looking for his birth family yet, but he had been thinking about it when a half sibling found him on instagram. His birth mother had died a year before, but he has met his maternal grandmother and his biological father and many siblings. I adore his Gigi. We have met one sister. Our son is so blessed to have all these people who love him.
That’s so awesome. My dad left with me and my brother when I was two due to my mom being a huge alcoholic and drug addict. After 20 years we’ve talked a couple times. Things haven’t changed. When I told her I wasn’t looking to meet her currently but would like to talk back when I was 18 (I’m 24 now) she flipped out and told me I was a mistake as well as my older brother. I’m so glad not all stories are the same and this made my day❤️
I was adopted at north and I meet my biological family for my 18th birthday in a few weeks. I am so happy
Beautiful! What a brave girl his birth mother is! 15 and she still carried him full term to give him to another family wanting a baby! I couldn’t do that…. What a beautiful person! God bless them all
I commend this young lady for carrying her baby to term then making the hard choice to put him up for adoption to give him a better life. Instead of terminating
Always better when you don’t kill babies.
I was 14 when I gave my son up for adoption. Not a day went by when I was not thinking about him. He found me back in 2010 and it was a shock but also immense joy. I live in the United States and he in Germany. I hope before I die to be able to see him and physically hold him and my grandson but financially it probably will never happen. I am so happy for this mom and son
I wish you all the best. May your family be able to reunite❤️🤗
I was adopted at birth, i love my adopted family because i didn't see it as a negative because they picked me to love, my bio mother had put me up for adoption because she wasn't in a safe place to care for herself and a baby and was essentially trapped in this situation, once she put me up for adoption she was finally able to get somewhere safe, go back to school and find a job, it took four years for her to do. When i was six i got to meet her with my adopted family and the first thing i said to her was " hi mommy" i live with my adopted family but do spent time at her home often, my bio dad is also in the picture (teen parents he was not the reason my mom was unsafe) i got to meet my dad that day too, im extremely lucky to have grown up with two loving families because i know so many people don't.
one of the most beautiful things on internet.
Kudos to the adoptive family for making him ready for this encounter 💜💜💜👌
REALITY CHECK !
'His Adoptive Family' deserves ALL the CREDIT ! ❤
BEAUTIFUL Comment ! 👍
*_A tear dripped down my cheek. He is luckier than many._*
Wonderful story--very happy for both of them. What amazing (adoptive) parents he had to tell him about Holly and how she loved him.
Adoptive/step parents who truly love their child are not threatened by their child meeting/having a relationship with their natural parent.
I can see the resemblance so much, it makes me so happy that he didn't give up hope and that they finally reunited.
Everyone of these stories, brings me to tears! I can not imagine having to give up a child, especially my very first one!
Aww. Really sweet.
Awwww I'm crying so hard rn . She was a good momma to give her baby . Both are good momma's to that man .
Love this. Love that the birth mom met her boy and that the parents of the boy healthy relationship with their son and always being transparent with him from day 1. I think more adopted children should have parents such as Ben’s.
Adopted children like myself should of had our biological families via kinship adoption and/or just being able to stay with our biological mother/father because they were supported, i’m not told that adoption was the better option for us.
I’m crying joy of happiness for all of them. Beautiful story!
Kudos!!!!!!! To the the adoptive parents!!! Seriously, it was their positive behaviors that allowed this moment to even occur.
What a wonderful, selfless woman! And what a strong, humble young man! Beautiful family.
Praise God for lovely adopting parents. People have the need to know their roots though.
Wonderful. Very lucky to see mother. You are really lucky to have two beautiful mothers. God bless you all
He is unbelievably blessed. To think so many children/people have nobody, no family and he has two complete families is just amazing. He seems like a very decent young man so I'm sure he realizes how fortunate he truly is.
I'm glad the biological mother had enough courage to make the first move. A little closure makes a difference for both families. Now all the pieces have been found and the pressure is off. This doesn't happen too often.
Ben is blessed to have so many parents who love him!!!
The adoptive parents are wonderful people!!
Thank you for giving him life...
the family that adopted this young man are true heros, never keeping birth mom a secret and expressing gratitude towards her
Absolutely beautiful! God bless them all ❤️
I never judge.I thought I was pregnant at 14 yrs old.Happy for them that they reconnected ❤💛💙
That was a beautiful story! The courage for mom and also for the adoptive parents that told him the Truth! He always felt love from every side . Wow wow wow !
Such a lovely, warm story. Sigh... I need this.
What a lovely reunion and outcome for everyone involved. Blessings to yall
Beautiful story!
Everyone inside this situation is just amazing
So amazing, very happy for them!
He is so close to my age I am 2 years older then him but I am so glad he found his birth mother now they can reconnect with each other catch up with each other I bet his birth mother was very happy to see her son again after 20 years apart I am amusing she was really happy to see him
Lovely. I wish it were always like this. I'm glad it was for them.
Great people ❤ this is why I love America, I know it’s not perfect, but we’re trying our best
This so beautiful and the mom looks great I thought they were together as a couple that’s how young and beautiful the mama looks I’m sorry what I thought but you did he right thing mama
Sooo sweet ❤️❤️
Amazing story and people in this ! They are positive and very loving, empathetic people!
'This is the kind of story we need now.'
I’m glad it worked out. So many others not so much
I know exactly how he feels!
Must have been hard to give him up. I had my daughter when I was 14 years old, and I couldn’t imagine giving her up. She will be a freshman this upcoming school year and she is now 14.
😭😭❤️❤️❤️ Beautiful!!!
such a great story, im happy other people are happy!
Happy you found each other. God bless your hearts
Wow that was so lovely. Thanks for sharing! And I am so glad they found each other. I absolutely feel that an adopted child should always be in touch with his birth parents, no matter what. The adoptee's rights should supercede anyone elses!
There are lots of situations in the natural parents life that may require privacy. If the natural parent decides to remain anonymous the child doesn’t have any right to have a relationship with them.
@@maryricketts7337 I COMPLETELY DISAGREE!!!! THE PERSON'S RIGHT TO KNOW HIS BIOLOGICAL PARENTS SHOULD SUPERCEDE ANY PRIVACY RIGHTS OF THE PARENTS. I have heard stories of children seeking to meet their biological parents only to find that one or both of them have died before they had a chance to meet them. That would be a nightmare for me if I had been adopted.
Well done for given hi up and gor getting to know him again. Bless you both
I’m glad this all worked out and he actually knew he was adopted and actually wanted to meet his birth mother. This could’ve gone a completely different way.
Wonderful story♥️♥️♥️
How I wish I could adopt a baby like this :( I have craved to do that all my life but never worked out
That's just awesome☺
Would’ve been more awesome had the birthmother had proper support so she could parent her child. Family per reservation is way better than family separation. And this is coming from an adoptee
There should be more support for young Moms so they could keep their babies.
I was wondering what he would call her and he referenced his biological mother as Holly.
WOW that is so messed up!! I would NEVER be able to be whole if that happened to me so hat's off to that young man!!
Adorable ❤
Always wonderful to see good thing happy to nice people!
3:05 💯 sometimes the best things happen for us when we least expect it
Nice story! I'm happy it went well.
“Your girls have my face” 🥺🥺
What a wonderful story!
I love this!
How wonderful!! Give God The Glory! He made something beautiful out of pain and circumstaces❤ He mended broken hearts and lives!! Glory to His Name!❤
To give a child the chance to have a more stable, successful, supported life is such an incredible gift. My family and I would love to grow through adoption but I am so afraid I won’t have the right answers that adopted kids need. We all want our biological parents to love us, no matter what they have done to us; it is an integrated characteristic to desire and ask about that bond. I can’t imagine doing a closed adoption unless someone’s life was at risk.
It is such a blessing to hear a story like this and see adults working together to give this fellow a loving and supportive family that is a blend of biological and adoptive. What a joy it must be for them to watch him succeed and learn more about his identity as a person and an adoptee!!
As an adoptee myself adoption is way more traumatic than people want to believe it is. People are always telling us how blessed, lucky, and grateful we should feel and be yet inside that’s not always how it is. We literally lose our entire genetic family including our known mothers that we are genetically bonded to, to play Stockholm syndrome with strangers for our rest of our lives.
Now that us adoptees are finally speaking our truth about adoption, and that the narrative of adoption is not always fairytales and rainbows we are gaslit by the general public and told that we need therapy, that we just had a bad adoption, that we’re just angry, how ungrateful we are, etc…. We don’t have to feel grateful for something that we did not consent to.
Y’all need to stop putting adoptive parents on these imaginary pedestals! And definitely take God out of adoption. God did not make a woman pregnant so she can just incubate a baby for somebody else, because she was in such a detrimental position that she could not raise her own flesh and blood. God is a God of family preservation, not family separation.
Beautiful
What a beautiful story I pray that they continue to build a strong relationship and heal their lives and help them to stay together forever.
I wish I was adopted and to a loving caring parents.
I said an adoptee myself you need to STFU! Being relinquished at birth, and losing your known mother is more traumatic. It has been proven by the American pediatrics that it wires are brain for trauma. It puts us in a state of trauma mode for the rest of our lives. My adoptive parents abused me in every single way imaginable. So no adoption does not equal loving caring parents. So just stop 🙄
unless there's abuse, children should always get to know who their biological parents are and have the opportunity to know them from earliest possible age, whether adopted or sperm donor children or whatever...
Serendipitous.
My mom just met her biological mother and biological fathers side of the family for the first time ever. It is a crazy. I wish my mom could tell her story, it is truly incredible.
Thank god she have him up for adoption
God bless you alllllllllll!👏👏❤️
Wow. I am the same age and just had my first baby. I couldn't imagine having a 20 year old
The more the merrier. I have seven siblings and love having such a large family. Everybody gained another family, win win
Yeah but are those siblings your genetics siblings? It’s much different when you’re an actual Adoptee and you have siblings that have zero genetic make up of yourself. 🙄
@@DezaRay24 Yes, all eight of us have the same father and mother
why would someone gives up their child and think Thants a good idea! the best place for a child in with his/her parents no matter what!
Awww! 👏 yaya!
One thing for sure in life, you can never have too many people that love you. He has two sets of parents that love him like their own. In that he's lucky.
It's truly heart-wrenching to witness a young mother, who was still a child herself, being forced to part with her newborn child. The agony that is unmistakably evident in those photos, as she surrenders her baby to his new parents, is simply unbearable. However, amidst the sadness, there is a glimmer of solace knowing that his adoptive parents are compassionate and affectionate. Nevertheless, it is my utmost desire that no mother ever has to endure such a harrowing experience.
I always wanted to meet my real dad. After learning disturbing facts about him. I should be looking for my little brother. I wish I knew of him but he's probably dead or making a good life. I truly hope so.
'Real' dad? This right here is what stops most people from seriously considering adoption..
He’s cute
Thank you for choosing life and adoption over abortion! God bless!
I found my birth mom on FB via information I got from Ancestry and my adoptive mom who passed.