As I shared in my blog entry 90210: Adoption Search & Reunion Effects on Birth Siblings, 90210 is exploring an adoption search and reunion storyline. Last week’s episode got me thinking about how it affects an adoptee when he learns that his adoptive parents have a biological child.

This can happen in a number of ways. An adoptive couple might adopt a baby and then later get pregnant. At some point, the family will have a discussion about how one child joined the family through birth and the other through adoption.