Obama’s Father Considered Giving Son Up for Adoption
He would still have grown up a native son of Hawaii, but he may not have been president.
Newly released immigration files from 1961 show President Barack Obama’s father considered putting his son up for adoption, the Boston Globe reports.
The elder Barack H. Obama was a University of Hawaii sophomore when he spoke of possible adoption plans with federal immigration officials. The feds interviewed Obama Sr. because they were concerned that he had more than one wife.
“Subject got his USC wife ‘Hapai’ [Hawaiian for pregnant] and although they were married they do not live together and Miss Dunham is making arrangements with the Salvation Army to give the baby away,’’ writes Lyle H. Dahling, a Honolulu administrator for what was then called the US Immigration and Naturalization Service.
The revelation was news to the president, who had never been told his mother thought of giving him up for adoption, according to Robert L. Gibbs, the former White House press secretary.
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