When teenage mothers give birth to their babies at a very young age, they are not always mentally or financially ready to take care of the younger ones. The bundles of joy are often given up for adoption and they end up with new families. This is the case of Stacey Faix who was born at 15, about 35 years ago.
This woman thought she would never see her son again, but luckily she was not. Pennsylvania passed a law in November 2017 allowing adopted children to access information about their birth parents. When Stephen Struane, Faix’s son, learned of this, he was determined to meet the woman who had brought him into the world.
Once he had the documents in hand and finally learned his birth mother’s name, he was finally able to begin the search. “It was a big sigh of relief,” he told Inside Edition.
The first thing he did was try to find her on Facebook. I think this is one of the biggest benefits of social networking sites, that you can connect with long lost people. Once he found a woman with that name, he texted her, “Hello, I have a really weird question. Did I propose a baby boy for adoption in 1982?” The answer he got was the one he had expected to hear for a long time. He then continued, “I think you could be my birth mother.”
This mother and her son share common interests. It turns out they would run the Pittsburgh Half Marathon as members of the Red, White and Blue organization.
Race day was the day a lost mother and son were finally going to kiss each other. However, Faix had no idea that she would see her son. She didn’t realize this would happen after someone gave her a card that said, “It’s been 13,075 days since you last saw me. I didn’t want you to wait for one. other day.”
“We must have hugged about 10 different times,” Strawn said. “We get done hugging, look at each other and then hug again. It just felt really surreal that it was finally happening because it happened so fast.”
