by Pamela Slaton | Feb 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
My heart is so completely touched by my client. Joe also knew my brother from our small town in Queens, NY. He wrote a testimony for my website that blew me away. He realized that having your answers can be healing even without a reunion. I am hopeful Joe’s...
by Pamela Slaton | Jan 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
Loyalty, Guilt and the desire to know. I cannot tell you how many people have said the following words to me “I cannot search until my adoptive parents pass away”. The mindset is that Adoptees feel that if they show a desire to know their birth family, it...
by Pamela Slaton | Jan 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
TRUST the DNA. I have been working on a case that I’ve gone round and round on. I believed the birth father to be a man who was 59 years old. The birth mother was 16. I could not reconcile this intellectually. I doubted my own work even though I spent hours...
by Pamela Slaton | Nov 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Genie in a bottle. When I was a little girl, I would bury some of my mom’s glass bottles hoping that a Genie would appear inside one. I would gather a few friends and we would search for buried Genie bottles with scarves that we fastened to our hair to look more like...
by Pamela Slaton | Jun 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
Learning that you are the product of rape is a really hard thing to reconcile within. I was told by my birth mother that this was how I was conceived. It rocked me to my core. It turned out not to be true once I received the results of my first dna test, but I had...