Today in Focus
Today in Focus
The Guardian
The complicated truth about adoption reunions
35 minutes Posted Jun 22, 2026 at 2:00 am.
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Guardian news editor David Batty spent years longing to meet his birth mother. But his reunion with the woman who had been forced to give him up was far from a fairytale ending. He explains why the legacy of forced adoption continues to cast such a long shadow. Help support our independent journalism at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/infocus">theguardian.com/infocus</a>