My mother was forced to give me up for adoption. But when we finally met decades later, it was far from a fairytale ending ^10.5%

The Guardian - By David Batty - 6/6/2026, 5:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 21.7% - Negativity Bias 10.7% - Hasty Generalization 10.3%

One morning in late September 2023, I discovered by chance that my birth mother had been killed almost a year earlier. The revelation came while I was searching my work email for a stray message. In the bin folder, amid a slurry of irrelevant press releases, lay an unopened email, flagging a long-forgotten Google alert I had set up for... more

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My mother was forced to give me up for adoption. But when we finally met decades later, it was far from a fairytale ending ^10.5%

Author: David Batty

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My mother was forced to give me up for adoption. But when we finally met decades later, it was far from a fairytale ending 10.5%

My mother was forced to give me up for adoption. But when we finally met decades later, it was far from a fairytale ending ^10.5%