Right to Know

07/16/2026

💛 You don't have to navigate your journey alone.

Join us TONIGHT Wednesday, July 15 (7–9 pm via Zoom) for a General Discussion Meeting, facilitated by Kim and Dottie.

This open, peer-led space welcomes adult adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents, kinship/foster caregivers, foster alumni and those navigating DNA discoveries. 🤝 Come share, listen, and connect with others who get it.

Pre-registration required through our calendar — https://ow.ly/vbS350ZiJ06

07/15/2026

We invite you to sign up, and log in to touch base with other birth/first parents and get some authentic care, understanding and wisdom with our CUB Online Support Group this Saturday.
Sign up here: https://concernedunitedbirthparents.org/zoom-support-groups

07/15/2026

At 20 years old, Amanda’s dad asked her to take a paternity test. Weeks later, the results arrived in a greeting card.

The test confirmed what he had long suspected: he was not her genetic father.

But the truth did not end their relationship. His honesty helped explain the distance Amanda had sometimes felt—and ultimately brought them closer.

Listen to S1 E26 of Unraveling Me for Amanda’s full story: https://shows.acast.com/unraveling-me/episodes/s1e26-unraveling-amanda

07/14/2026

When DNA reveals new family, people assume the hardest part is finding them.

But the harder part is what happens after.

For Lisa, some relatives welcomed her.
But others wanted nothing to do with her.

That kind of rejection is hard to explain unless you’ve lived it.

For Lisa’s full story, listen to S1 E25 of Unraveling Me: https://shows.acast.com/unraveling-me/episodes/s1e25-unraveling-lisa

07/14/2026

07/13/2026

✨ Somewhere between shock, questions, grief, anger, curiosity, healing, and hope… there’s community.

Join us Wednesdays at 5 PM Pacific / 8PM Eastern time for our weekly Community & Connection meeting.

This is a space for people impacted by:
• DNA surprises
• Adoption
• Donor conception
• Misattributed parentage
• Reunion and first contact
• Identity and belonging struggles
• Family secrets and complex relationships

You do not need to have the “right words.”
You do not need to have everything figured out.

You just need a place where people understand. 💛

Come connect, listen, share, laugh, process, or simply sit with others who get it.

Pre-registration required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lde2tpzgrEtUJ76L5JQPTZ8CyFA4frz6N

07/13/2026

Family stories should not have missing people.

Not adoptees left without answers.
Not DCP disconnected from genetic relatives.
Not people with an NPE or DNA surprise expected to quietly disappear into someone else’s secret.
Not genetic parents, siblings, or extended family erased because the truth is uncomfortable.

Being left out of your own origin story is not protection.

It is loss.
It is disconnection.
It is being asked to live without pieces of yourself that other people were allowed to know.

At Right to Know, we believe family truth matters — even when family is complicated.

No one should be left behind.
No one should be forgotten.
And no one should be denied the truth of their genetic identity.

www.RightToKnow.us

07/12/2026

Maria’s DNA test led her to a first cousin match, a family willing to ask questions, and one uncle who had been in Seattle at exactly the right time.

He agreed to take a DNA test.

The result: he was her father.

But the story got even stranger.

He'd been an actor in movies and TV shows Maria had watched as a child. And when she finally saw him, she saw herself too: the same eyes, the same smile, the same chin, even the same tooth out of place.

Sometimes DNA doesn’t just give you a name.
Sometimes it gives you a mirror.

For more of Maria’s story, listen to S1 E28 of Unraveling Me:
https://shows.acast.com/unraveling-me/episodes/s1e28-unraveling-marie

07/12/2026

Kept people often don't realize how privileged they are.