Adoption: don't be beaten by time

Updated June 28 2018 - 1:29pm, first published May 16 2017 - 12:00am
TIME SLIPPING AWAY: Jigsaw Queensland president Dr Trevor Jordan says older adoptees and relinquishing parents are running out of time to find each other.
TIME SLIPPING AWAY: Jigsaw Queensland president Dr Trevor Jordan says older adoptees and relinquishing parents are running out of time to find each other.

THERE are two groups of Australians for whom time is slipping like sand through an hourglass - they are the ageing parents who gave their children up for adoption in the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s, and their adopted children now reaching their older years and for whom every passing moment brings an opportunity lost to reconnect.

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