My husband knows to quickly turn the channel if we happen to be surfing through and land on one of the shows that spotlight adoption reunions because I always end up invariably yelling at the TV out of sheer frustration at only portraying that first, highly emotional, almost always tear-jerking moment of the initial adoptee/birth mother hug. To me, it’s kind of setting adoptees (and birth parents and adoptive parents) up for failure. Although it was truly an incredible, joyous…..
