Mom and daughter reunited 77 years after (rape &) adoption (grandson astronaut)

New York Post ^ | May 11, 2014 | Susannah Cahalan

[cdga5for4]

Raised by a Lutheran pastor and his wife, Ruth Lee never wanted to learn the identity of her birth parents. She had a happy childhood and never doubted the love showered upon her by her adoptive parents and three brothers. Blessed with five children herself — one more successful than the next, including NASA astronaut Mark Lee and West Point grad and Army Lt. Col. Brian Lee — her life was too full, too busy to think about her unknown past. But then, at age 77, she was plagued by a series of health issues. Her children begged her to find medical information about the parents she never knew.

[cdga5for4]

This New York post writer can really write.

[cdga5for4]

This is very well done NBC Today Show piece as well, although they, interestingly, omitted the fact that she has been raped and that a grandson (product of rape) became an astronaut.

http://www.today.com/books/waiting-birth-mothers-quest-meet-her-daughter-2D79627749

[madprof98]

Beautiful. As an adoptive parent, this is the kind of story I love to read.

[cdga5for4]

I’m an adoptive parent as well and this story struck quite a chord with me.

[ansel12]

It is such an awesome story, that it kind of leaves you speechless.

[The Great RJ]

My father-in-law also was adopted as an infant in 1928. He too was born to a single mother with no information about his father. He never had any desire to find his birth mother, but since his death my wife and her sister was been researching her. Recently they had a breakthrough and were able to find her obituary. There were no siblings and while my wife would love to have a photo she does not want to contact any nieces or nephews as they may be unaware of her father's birth.

[The Great RJ]

My father-in-law also was adopted as an infant in 1928. He too was born to a single mother with no information about his father. He never had any desire to find his birth mother, but since his death my wife and her sister was been researching her. Recently they had a breakthrough and were able to find her obituary. There were no siblings and while my wife would love to have a photo she does not want to contact any nieces or nephews as they may be unaware of her father's birth.

[I cannot think of a name]

“This is very well done NBC Today Show piece as well”

I can't believe that. You must have accidentally crossed into some parallel life dimension where the lamestream media is actually worth something.

The idea of a woman being raped, having the child, and there being a happy ending? No way the lamestream media can report such a thing!

[cdga5for4]

So true. Well, Jenna Bush did the story. She actually does some good ones. With that said, they still ignored two significant portions of the piece (she was raped and that a product of the rape became an astronaut) were ignored.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I’m confused - are you saying there were 2 generations of rape? Ruth/Betty was raped as well?

[the OlLine Rebel]

Jenna Bush? Where? Which? Didn’t see the name.

[cdga5for4]

No, one rape. Grandmother was raped. Her grandson became the astronaut. I said product of rape in that if the grandmother hadn’t been raped and had the baby there would have been no daughter to have astronaut son.

[muir_redwoods]

Write and simply say you’re doing genealogy research and may be related to her. No need to mention the birth and its not a lie.

[ExCTCitizen]

Great article.

[tom h]

Wonderful story. Just goes to show that the product of a rape is not necessarily more tragedy.

I've always loved another story, more modern. A white married woman in Boston is raped by a black man and gives up the mixed-race child for adoption. Happened in the early 1960s, not long before Roe v Wade.

Mother and daughter reunite 33 years later. Lovely story. Had it happened 10 years later, feminists would have been screaming that the woman have an abortion. Think of all the lives that would have been snuffed out by such a selfish and murderous act.

Geraldine Cummins Reunites with Daughter 33 years after Rape