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Patsy: Found by DNA, Silenced by Family
Patsy: Found by DNA, Silenced by Family
Our current guest, Patsy Brooks-Tallant, is a Baby Scoop Era adoptee whose private adoption was arranged through falsified legal documents, leaving family secrets hidden for more than six decades. Through years of determined genealogy research and DNA testing, she uncovered both sides of her biological family and now passionately advocates for adoptee rights, open records, and the truth every adoptee deserves to know.