'We Are Family' is looking for roots adoptive sisters and turns to Filip and Yang Naudts for good advice
LOCHRISTI -Tonight starts on One 'We Are Family'. After reporter Lidewij Nuitten went looking for her former sweetheart Mark last year, she is now unraveling the roots of two adoptive sisters. In the second episode she looks for golden tips in Lochristi.
If you want to get to know yourself, you have to look for your origin. Lidewij learned that last year in 'Where is Mark?', the search for her first love. A story that was mainly about adoption. Starting tonight she will work on an analogous story and together with Noëmi and Anéline she will look for their biological parents. This brings her back on the track of rapprochement with her own brothers. But first a detour to Lochristi, where photographer Filip Naudts has a cozy family, with partner Katrien, son Alphonse and daughter Yang. So an adoptive daughter.
"Lidewij came to us with Noëmi and Anéline, hoping to pick up some golden tips from our noses during their search," says the Lootse photographer. “They got wind of our own search and asked if we didn't want to participate in the new series around the same problem.”
From the moment that Yang completed their family, Filip and his wife Katrien went in search of the answer to the origin-related question that Yang might one day ask himself. “We don't know Yang's birth history and there is certainly no information about her biological family. It is therefore like looking for a needle in a haystack. But doing nothing was not an option for us from the start, especially as time could erase clues. There are always files that disappear, or relatives that die. Despite many attempts through various American and Chinese channels, and also having search posters posted in Yang's native region, the search has still not yielded any fruitful results after all these years," it sounds.
What does daughter Yang, 17 and a student Restaurant-Keuken at the Hotel School in Ghent, think about this? “I don't really care that much about my past. I am only reminded when others approach me about this and ask, for example, what it is like to be adopted, or whether it was easy to learn the Dutch language.” “During my internship at De Lozen Boer, someone asked me why I considered working in a Chinese restaurant” (laughs). “People may mean well, but personally I find these comments rather irrelevant. Not because I want to deny my Chinese roots – a bit difficult in my case – or because adoption has no meaning in my life. But I actually prefer to be judged on my skills and who I am as a person. My origin doesn't really matter. That's why I don't feel the urge to visit my biological family at the moment. Though I'm not saying that can't change. For example, if I ever become pregnant or, who knows, adopt a child.” ?(Geert Herman)
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