The Tigers in Your Dreams: 14 stories of adoptees reuniting with family members by Sandra Butler Ladwig is an emotional book containing short stories about adoptees searching for and contacting their birth families, and siblings in search of siblings that they may or may not have known about. This book also contains information and tips for your own search.
I have written this book for two purposes. The first is to provide information, assistance and support to adult adoptees searching for birth mothers, birth fathers and siblings. If an idea in one of the stories in this book provides an adoptee with new ideas, direction or renewed hope, then writing this book will have been my pleasure. The second purpose is to entertain everyone everywhere.
Whether or not to search for biological relatives is something that each person in the adoption triangle will decide to do or not to do themselves. Deciding not to search is just as acceptable as deciding to carry out a search. If anyone is suffering with their own personal decision, please remember what my Grandmother told me, “The Tigers in your dreams will never catch you unless you run away.”
Sandra and her Committee of eight, M.L.A. Marianne Jablonski and Minister Iris Evans, were instrumental in opening the adoption records in Alberta on January 1, 2005. There are amendments still required to allow family members to obtain information from the adoption file should the birth parents be deceased or should the adoptee be deceased. At the present time, only those involved in the adoption triangle may obtain information from the adoption files.
