40 years to find my birth father
Although adoptee Karine had a joyous childhood, the birth of her own baby sparked an urge to track down her birth parents 鈥� a search that took decades and almost ran out of time.
Growing up, Karine Burns always knew she was adopted, and that her mother had been sent over to the UK from Ireland.
Karine had a joyous childhood, loved dearly by her Scottish parents. But after the arrival of her first child, she started to think seriously about her birth mother - about how hard it must have been to give a baby up for adoption, so far from home.
Her mammoth 20-year search for her birth parents involved passionate appeals, detective work and rejection - until a breakthrough changed everything, just in the nick of time鈥�
Karine tells her incredible story to Life Changing鈥檚 Dr Sian Williams.
Producer: Tom Alban.
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