Kyle Adler, 36, reunites with his Chilean birth mother after learning he was stolen as an infant and illegally adopted by an American couple. The reports say Adler was adopted in the United States when he was about nine months old, following his removal from his birth family in Chile. Multiple outlets connect the case to the period of Chile’s military dictatorship under Gen. Augusto Pinochet, when thousands of children were taken from families.
Adler’s discovery that he was adopted and that his removal was not consensual came as a shock and led to years of uncertainty and an identity crisis, according to one account. Earlier this year, he traveled to Chile for the first time in about 35 years to meet his birth mother and other members of his biological family.
The articles describe the reunion as the culmination of a lengthy process that followed Adler’s realization of his origins, highlighting the lasting impact of past child-seizure practices in Chile and the personal consequences for people adopted abroad.
