It’s truly painful to have an itch you can’t scratch, but it’s not good to scratch an open sore. Deborah TatarBlacksburg, Va.To the Editor:I am surprised that Steve Inskeep did not mention genetic testing as another route for adoptees to find out about their biological parents. Like him, I was adopted at birth, but was never told about the details of the process by my adoptive parents. Some halfhearted searching on my part in the 1980s and 1990s found no useful records pertaining to my birth. What the adoptee does with his accurate birth information should be his business, and no one else’s.

Source: New York Times April 02, 2021 21:22 UTC