What are some of the difficulties in searching for birth parents in Vietnam?
Some birth mothers had left unsafe rural villages and lived only briefly in the large cities where they relinquished a child. After the war, these birth mothers returned to their rural villages. As a result, they were not well known at the address they gave at the time of relinquishment. Other birth mothers, of course, remained in the large cities. They, however, are usually not at their last known addresses and the people who live in the neighborhood now may not have known them, as the cities have changed a great deal during the last thirty years.
