Presentation Title: A Man with 1000 Kids: The Complexity of Genetic Sexual Attraction in Reunion Relationships, Panelist

A black market baby, Patricia Knight Meyer was sold as an infant along a Texas hospital curb in 1970, via a Baby-Scoop Era transaction that left her without a legal adoption or birth certificate. After a twenty-year search for her natural parents, she uncovered a web of family secrets centered around an extorting attorney who threatened to take back the baby. Her forthcoming memoir chronicles her journey to find her natural parents and finally obtain a legal BC at 47 years old. She advocates for adoption reform and seeks to educate others about reunion challenges, including the "taboo" topic of genetic sexual attraction - a documented phenomenon affecting some reunited relatives. Her emotional reunion video with her birth father has garnered 280,000 YouTube views, and she splits her time between central Texas and New Orleans, writing and road tripping with her grumpy Chihuahua, Ollie.