Did Catholic Charities lie?

A lot of the adoptees I have helped reunite had incorrect info. My brother and mine was very incorrect. We were adopted out of some horrible place in Massachusetts and housed in an orphanage like foster home where we were not held or loved until we were legally free 4 months later. I don't blame my mom or my B-Mom just the money making catholic charity and their ignorant ideas. We suffered mental anguish there. I still rock back and forth like 3rd world orphan when I am tired. While I can't speak for your specific agency I hope this helps. The records were supposed to be sealed forever....they could get away with what they want.

Absolutely they changed details - and to be fair - a lot of the agencies did this...and they felt that it would never be found out... They also had mysterious fires or floods that destroyed the records...hmmmm... And they think a mutual consent registry would work - it would for them because there would be few to no matches simply because the details given to both sides seldom match... DNA does not lie though so... Kind regards,Dickons

That's what I thought. I have seen pictures of both of my birth parents and 1/2 siblings. I look just like them. I've talked with a 1/2 sister and birth mom and some of the information I was given by CC is just wrong---while many little details do make sense. My sister and I are going to do a DNA test to be certain. Thanks!!!!!

Molly - if you and your half sister are doing a dna test then you will need to do the expensive half-sibling test that looks at more markers. The sibling tests on the market cannot confirm half-siblings unless you both have some incredibly rare markers compared to the general population - it is all a math based formula on common or rare markers in the general public and the likelyhood of two individuals either being related or not. PLEASE either do the expensive test or add your parent in common in the test, simply because you each inherit a RANDOM 50% of your genes from each parent and the likelihood percentage is based on the general population. The other choice is to do the Mtdna test which would work if it is the mother in share in common because that is passed on complete. Kind regards,Dickons