Our children, adopted from India, meet their first mother ten years after they were taken from her.

Our children meet their first mother ten years after they were stoler. Their amazing story www.bittersweet-story.blogspot.com (family pic courtesy Notebook mag/Sam McAdam)

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[musiic4life]

Beautiful video. But what happend to the baby?

[jurol8]

Are you asking about her hair being shaved? The family is Muslim. Babies are taken to a mosque soon after birth and their hair is shaved, in a religious ceremony called aqiqah. Our Indian family postponed this ceremony until our arrival. We were then given the honour of accompanying the family to a mosque, and I held little Zeenath as her hair was shaved and she received a blessing.

[vintagous]

This is great! I have always wanted to adopt but living in Australia, it is a lot harder than in the U.S.

[jurol8]

Actually, we are an Aussie family. Our six children were adopted from Korea, Taiwan and India. It is more difficult here than in the US but there are still families needed for older and special needs children in most of Australia's intercountry adoption programs. Cheers, Julia (Akil and Sabi's Aussie mum)

[gabbb432]

You are truly amazing people and I have so much respect for you, you have a beautiful family, and you did a wonderful thing by adopting these children, then seeking out their birth mother.

[cbrun67176]

I wish there were more parents like you!! I'm sure both your children as well as the bio mom were at peace after.

[nswkirstie1980]

@steffyb528 the biological father stole them and sold them to a crooked orphanage director



[Shrink18]

2:59 is this their father? why does he look angry ?

[jurol8]

@Middy1031

We had friends in India who searched in the village where our children were born, and eventually we found someone who remembered their family and put us in touch with relatives.

[Shokara2]

@fleazo77 I also very very much want to adopt from India. My husband is from there and we will settle there in a few years. I hear about abandoned children and it breaks my heart. I am 30 years old and have never been blessed with children. I want children so badly that i cry myself to sleep at night. I see the same pain in my husbands eyes. I want children so badly... but am afraid we wont be allowed to adopt because we are an interracial marriage. I would accept ANY child as my own.

[Shokara2]

@fleazo77 Religion isn't as important as the bond that forms between a parent and child. My husband is Indian, he was raised Hindu but is now atheist. I am white, american and I was raised Christian but haven't followed that faith since early childhood. Now I prefer to follow the teachings of Allah. I do not belong to a mosque but I do have faith. By your logic... what would our children therefore have to be? And we plan on adopting. Which children could possibly be our mix??

[steffyb528]

You said they were stolen? I don't understand.

[rachelimandelker]

Such a beautiful story