Not every adopted person wants an adoption reunion, but many adoptees do. Here are a few of the many reasons why an adopted person may want to search for their birth family.

Adopted people have different motivations for wanting to find their birth families, and the desire can strike at different times in their lives.

On the Who Am I Really? podcast, Damon Davis speaks with adoptees about their adoption journeys and attempts to reunite with biological families.

Some adoptees want to search from the moment they learn they are adopted or begin to understand what adoption truly means: that they were transplanted from another bloodline to their family.

Others are motivated by the birth of a child, the death of an adoptive parent, curiosity about their medical history, or general curiosity.

Here's what adoptees have told me about searching for their birth families on the "Who Am I Really?" podcast.