Missing Mila, Finding Family: An International Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series)

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In the spring of 1983, a North American couple who were hoping to adopt a child across the world received word that if they acted quickly, they could turn into the parents of a boy in an orphanage in Honduras. Layers of red tape dissolved as the American Embassy there smoothed the best way for the adoption. Within a couple of weeks, Margaret Ward and Thomas de Witt were the parents of a toddler they named Nelson—an adorable boy whose prior life appeared as mysterious as the truth that government officials in two countries had inexplicably expedited his adoption.

In Missing Mila, Finding Family, Margaret Ward tells the poignant and compelling story of this international adoption and the astonishing revelations that emerged when Nelson’s birth circle of relatives after all relocated him in 1997. After recounting their early years together, all over which she and Tom welcomed the birth of a second son, Derek, and created a circle of relatives with both boys, Ward vividly recalls the upheaval that occurred when members of Nelson’s birth circle of relatives contacted them and sought a reunion with the boy they knew as Roberto. She describes how their sense of circle of relatives expanded to include Nelson’s Central American relatives, who helped her piece together the lives of her son’s birth parents and their clandestine activities as guerrillas in El Salvador’s civil war. In particular, Ward develops an internal dialogue with Nelson’s deceased mother Mila, an elusive figure whose life and motivations she tries to be aware.

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