Long Lost Family

Episode 4 (3x4)

Air date: Jul 08, 2013

This week on Long Lost Family two stories of children separated from their parents. Long distance lorry driver, Laurence Peat was given up for adoption at birth. Despite a happy childhood and loving adoptive parents, it has been as an adult that he has been unable to shake off the feeling that he was unwanted. For decades Laurence has lived with this sense of rejection which has affected his own ability to have successful relationships. In the hope that finding his birth mother would make this feeling go away, Laurence set out to track down his birth mother but the information on his adoption file led him nowhere. Now, he is making one final attempt to find her and lay to rest his sense of being unwanted. Also, the story of Denise Temple desperate to find her daughter who she battled to keep when she gave birth to her nearly fifty years ago. Originally from Yorkshire, Denise now lives in Spain. Six years ago, when her husband passed away, she finally decided she could no longer live with the pain caused by a decision she made when she was just a teenager. After a brief relationship with a local boy, Denise fell pregnant and at the age of sixteen, gave birth to a baby daughter. Desperate to keep her baby she struggled for three months to look after her daughter but with no support from her mother or step-father she finally was unable to cope and gave her daughter up for adoption. Now Denise is hoping that she will finally be reunited with her daughter that she once loved so much.