Adoptees must be allowed to know their biological origin. That is the opinion of Maria Klingsholm, who today still does not know why she was adopted from India. The information about her adoption is extremely sparse.
For a long time she did not give it a thought. Just wondering why she was treated differently from the other kids in town, and just trying to fit in. Maria Klingsholm was adopted from India and came to Denmark just four months old. She therefore does not remember any other parents than the Danish couple who have taken care of her since they picked her up at the airport. Today she is 39 years old and still does not know why she grew up in Birkerød and not Bangalore.
“I have not been told anything other than that it says in my papers that I was with my mother until October, when I was admitted to an orphanage. It does not say anything about why, "she says.
It also says she was born on September 2, 1974. She's not sure she believes that. As she says, "you can not know that." Just like she can only guess at what happened up until the adoption.
"I have always been told by my adoptive parents that my biological mother was probably dead or could not afford a child, and then I ended up as a street child," she says.