 On Outlook today with me, Mubeen Azhar. Mark McDonald had always known he was an adoptee and he was comfortable with it. But once it became clear that Mark and his wife, Tina, couldn't safely be pregnant, he found himself wanting to know more about where he came from. I started thinking seriously about my adoption, not in any sort of regretful way, but in a yearning way, wanting to meet my biological mother, who was very young when I was born. She was only 16.