When you adopt a child. There are always an abundance of questions that need to be asked and answered.

However, that does not mean that every question asked can be answered. That is one of the saddest issues of adoption. So little information is given out about the biological parents. There are times when only the biological mother's history is registered and the biological father's information is not present.

The information most important to the child is a full Medical History Background. So if the child has issues when they are older. They have answers to the questions that a doctor may ask of them.

So as an Adoptive Parent it is important to ask questions about the Mothers Medical History and the Fathers Also if it is available.

It is good to know the full name of both parents.
The names of the grandparents if at all possible.
Last known address and social security numbers if at all possible.

This information will be important one day if your adopted child wishes to search for or meet their biological families.

Just because a child is given up for adoption or removed from a parental home because of neglect. That does not mean that there isn't biological family out there somewhere that still love and care for that child.

After our adoption was final and several months after we were settled into every day life. Our kids had kept telling us about their Grandma Martha. So my husband and I did some research and we found Grandma Martha. She was then in a nursing home. We asked the children if they would like to go visit their grandmother?

That was a very beautiful day for all of us. Grandma Martha told us stories and gave us pictures of the children that she had saved from a family house fire. So over the years until Grandma Martha passed away. We kept in touch with her. She loved her grand children she was just not in good enough health to take care of them herself.

This is often the case in many families. Where there is extended family who loves the children who would love to be apart of the child's life if at all possible.

In more and more open adoption cases we are seeing wonderful improvement in the emotional stability of our children when the adoptive parents care enough to allow biological family visits.

So try and get as much family history as you can. It just make help make your child feel apart of a world of family and not so all alone.