An adopted child found his mother after 42 years – she was told she was dead

Jamie lebert thayden who lives in United States of America He had to wait a full 42 years to happily embrace his biological life the mom.

What she didn’t know until recently was that she was one of thousands of children who had been adopted before Chilean with informing their parents of their death.

As mentioned before independent Doctors informed María Angelica Gonzalez that her son died and was taken from her arms 42 years ago.

Thayden began searching for his biological family when he learned about the non-profit organization Nos Buscamos, which works to reunite families.

of the research he did organized It turned out that he was born prematurely in a Santiago hospital and entered an incubator. His mother was discharged from the hospital, and when she returned to pick him up, she was informed that he had died and there was nothing to bury him.

“My adoption papers say they have no living relatives. I found out in the last few months that I have a mother, four brothers and a sister,” he said in an interview from Ashburn, Virginia, where he works as an attorney.

the organization We are looking for It is estimated that tens of thousands of children were uprooted from their families in the 1970s and 1980s under his administration. Auguste Pinochet They were given up for adoption after inspections of passports issued to children who had left the country and never returned.

“The real story is that it was stolen from poor families who did not know how to protect themselves,” says the head of the organization, which has succeeded in reuniting more than 450 families.

Among them is the Theiden family, who traveled to Chile with his wife and two daughters to meet them.

The moment was very touching as Thayden walked into his mother’s house with 42 balloons to the number of his age.

I was surprised to find that they both liked her kitchen.

Azim is the support he received during his trip from his family in the United States of America, stressing that “my adoptive parents wanted a family, but they did not want to have it in this way.”

He describes himself as lucky because he says things could be worse as “some people discover details about their origins that they don’t want to know”.