He was better off not having that woman in his life.

He's identical to his father when the father was young.

I'm glad his biological dad was so willing to accept him.

At least his dad is a real one, much respect!

I admit his biological mother’s reaction does not surprised me. She left him in a box when he was just an infant. She clearly does not want him in her life.

Terrible mother! Glad the father accepted him when he found out that he existed.

If I ever left a baby in front of Goodwill, it'd haunt me for the rest of my life. And if that baby called me all those years later, essentially saying that they forgave me and wanted a relationship, I would thank God for that opportunity of redemption.

What a stand up man Ben is. His biological mother’s loss. There is something severely wrong with that woman. So happy to see he has a great relationship with his Dad!

Damn cold hearted “mother”. So glad the father is open to creating a relationship.

His dad told him he was adopted on his birthday! There's 364 better days to tell him than that. HAPPY BIRTHDAY....your adopted. I hope it wasn't written on his birthday cake.

Ben, that woman proved who she was when she left you in a frigging box on the road! She may or may not be your biological mom! But you know what?! Highest honour and praise be to the woman who you were raised to call mom - for her motherly compassion and care that ultimately saw you become the man that you are today! Very pleased that the 'ol man accepted you with love. Loving him back I'm sure you are! Heck! you look a lot like him!!!

He sounds and looks like a really nice guy to be honest

If he had been a multi millionaire, and she saw that on the TV. He'd been getting calls from dusk til dawn

Should be looking for the teens that found you bro 👋😂

I’m glad his biological father is a great man. 🍻👍🏼

"Doing country stuff." Not even ABC knows what people do in Idaho. Lmao

I hate to say it but, if I was left near a dumpster next to a Salvation Army, I’d know I was never wanted. That horrible woman almost killed a baby to be selfishly anonymous.

Ben, I hope you always remember that "her" behavior towards you is NOT a reflection of your worth!! You're an amazing, loved and valuable person!! Never let her shameful actions cause you to ever question that!

I grew up 20 minutes away from my biological father without ever knowing. Sadly he passed before I learned who he was. CeCe Moore is amazing and helps so many adoptees. Glad that some have a positive outcome.

Either that woman is cold, is keeping it a secret, or feels his life might be in danger if it gets out. At least she told him to be happy with his new family, and I'm glad he is. He deserves happiness.

You know....I understand that she might have built a life for herself and buried this secret.... But the VERY LEAST she could've done was say "I'm so sorry... I'm just not in a place where I can meet you, my family doesn't know and I need to keep it that way." She made him feel like an unwanted, unloved mistake. That is horrible. Being a mother I dunno how anyone could give birth to a child and just pretend they never existed. And then treat them that way. It's awful. I hope he will get through this eventually.

lesson i've learned. if you were abandoned once don't run back to the same person, you can be abandoned twice.

This man’s father is amazing! How lucky to find a second loving father.

That's just sad and disgusting what type of human being rejects their own after 31 years

I would have to give her credit for abandoning him (but not the way she did it), because she would have had raised him horribly. Good to know that he was surrounded by wonderfull mom and dad and found an honorable father. Thank you for your service to our country kid. You have a loyal friends in me. Semper fi

so heart breaking, how the mom totally rejected the son. 😭😭 thank goodness his father loves him.

Honestly he's a big handsome guy. Got them looks from his dad.

The different reactions he got from his two parents reflect the difference in Social expectations at that time. The men are always proud to find a child they had fathered it's almost a sign of their virility. Whereas an unwanted pregnancy for the mother was a terrible stigma and she became labeled a loose woman

Wow he and his dad looks so much alike. But the mother broke my heart. Touching story.

I can’t believe the mother did not want to see him wow how cruel! I’d loved to have a son like this!

It's amazing he can have a life with his biological father now. He lives like the next town over so they'll have plenty of time to catch up. And I'm happy he already had a happy, loving family before all this. Now it's even bigger.

I can't believe a mother could do that no matter how often I hear stuff like this. Still, I'm glad he found his father and is happy.

regardless of the mother's personal life, she couldve, at least, apologized. he didnt deserve to be shunned like that. hopefully ben looks on the bright side and is happy with a father who decided to welcome him with open arms.

An old friend of mine was given up/abandoned at birth, at 18 years he confronted his birth mother, she basically didn't want anything to do with him, her words were " I abandoned you the first day, what makes you think I would want you now". Those were the hardest words I have ever listened to in my lifetime, several months later he committed suicide. His birth mother showed up to his funeral, she was scolded and asked to leave during mid funeral mass. His adopted parents did not like her at all, in fact neither of the people there did.

A mother whom abandoned you in a box out of nowhere is not deserving of love or his love. I’m glad he had a loving family and found his biological father that was so accepting to bring him in.

You should tell a child they are adopted from day one and not suddenly tell them years later that will be devastating for anyone to handle

Wow the mom didn't change since she dropped him off!

That birth mom, though. That takes a heart made of ice to hang up on her own flesh and blood. Cold. The birth dad is amazing.

He may not have gotten the answers he wanted from his bio mother, but he found a loving family who welcomed him with open arms! His father is an amazing man! How sad the adopted dad felt the need to tell him at a fragile age. Puberty is hard enough for kids to deal with! Like many others stated here, that was something he should have been told early on or not until he was grown.

Is her lost he seems to be very nice I love the the way his father opened his life for him

It's strange knowing that the mother who carried him for possibly 9 months didn't want anything to do with him but the man who didn't know his son existed welcomed Ben with open arms. The mom clearly had her reasons, getting pregnant by a man she didn't know and afraid of the punishments for abandoning her child but I guess all of us were disappointed that she could not give Ben the closure he was hoping for. Life isn't perfect but at least it has it's perks (Ben's loving adoptive family and a very welcoming father)

He looks so much like his dad. His mother is a lost cause, but his dad is an amazing man. I am so happy for him!

This was purely heart-wrenching to watch and see this poor man be rejected again, now in his adult life. May God bless you and give you strength and continuous love to you and to your family.

God bless you Ben. You are an amazing human being. God loves you, your father and brothers love you and I truly feel your birth mother loves you but for whatever reason she cannot face you. That is no reason for you to discount how valuable you are as a man and a son. I wish you all the best and may God continue to shine His love and light on you.

I was abandoned by my mum and had a terrible childhood being molested by my grandfather; My mum would appear every 4 years with a new child (which she kept and raised) but after I met my loving and sweet husband who she thought has money she appeared telling me she's and will always be my mum, always asking for financial help and asking for more every time I have helped her so I can say if this guy's mum is anything like mine he's better off without her.

This happened to me. I was 30 years old. I called my birth mother and she acknowledged I was her birth daughter but then blocked me from contacting her. It was a hard pill to swallow because you have so many questions, you wonder throughout your life what it would be like to meet her, wonder if she is fabulous person or if you have siblings...and to be left with questions and rejections can leave you feeling despaired if you let it. I learned to accept it how it was and not let it hurt my feelings. God bless him.

That woman has a heart of stone, had she been a good person ,she could have given him up for adoption.

So very glad Ben found his birth-Dad, who was so welcoming.

That note from his dad....that hit me hard

He looks soooo like his father

Happy birthday “You adopted” Nice joke dad haha Everyone’s face is str8 *Cries*

i know this is easy to say but we still cant fully judge the mother no matter how harsh she may have rejected her son. we dont know what kind of life she went through to get to that point. we dont know what exactly happened that lead her to that decision of abandonment. all we can do is be happy for the son and that he can at least move on from being rejected twice.

Seeing him react to his mother’s rejection made me cry!

Stay close to your father.

Ben, so glad you found your biological father. May you and your family grow with many blessings of love.💛

God, thank you for giving Ben’s dad a loving heart and spirit. Please help Ben heal from the rejection of the family that would not accept him. It will always be their great loss.

They search because they want to know they weren't really abandon out of choice but out some worst reason. They want to know they were loved even from afar. My heart really does break for him but in glad he found his father and some connection to himself.

The mom is an absolute piece of garbage that’s ridiculous at least the father was open god bless him

Rejection is never easy to take especially from a parent, thank god you have your dad to take a bit of that burden off you. Well done great courage man.

You got your Dad! Love, loyalty and acceptance! God bless you and your new found family!

As sad as this story ends, it's very bitter sweet, she more than likely has guilt by the way she left him, she could of been more than alone and scared, and having no one to turn to. Did a very desperate act, which has happen over and over all over the world. He is loved not only by his Mother and Father, but also by the man that never knew he was alive, and now has found brothers. It's when you look at what was found, and your family has grown 3 fold over night. It that blessing is what you focus on.

He looks just like his dad 😊

Awesome that he was able to connect with his father and wow they look like! His mother's loss really.

How terrible that this women did not accept her child. How cruel and another blow to this amazing man, but the blessing is that he found his loving father. How ironic that the man that never knew he had a son embraced his son, but the woman that gave him life, denied him.

Dad and son look just alike

In my opinion, a mother is someone raise her child no matter in what situation. My mother (my dad was killed at 40 yo during the war) had 8 children and we were very very very dirt poor. We lived in a country that had the war for over 30 years before I came to the US. She did not give up any of us. We never had any toy, birthday, and barely enough foods to eat. We never had any good shoe to wear or decent clothes for school. BUT we were all together. We all now have a decent job (am a Registered Nurse in New Port Beach California, in an acute care, large Presbyterian hospital). So, I think being poor is never a reason to abandon your child, and especially in a situation like this, in a very cold weather as such. Ben, maybe you should not reach out to this lady anymore. Let's go on with your life. You have a beautiful family of your own and loving adopted parents. Thank you for this video and take care your self, Ben.

What a gracious, special man your father is! God bless you both!

He looks exactly like his biological father! Made me cry 😢. Hopefully his mother changes her heart ❤. Amazing 👏

I wonder which part she couldnt accept. The part where she had a child out of wedlock after a one night stand, or the part where she left an innocent baby to die on the side of the road.

He looks so much like his father especially his dad's younger self as a soldier. Heartbreaking that the woman on the other line...gosh my heart goes out to him.

I know exactly how he felt as I myself was abandoned in a cardboard shoe box when I was only 6 days old outside a hospital in London England I have never known my parents and it does have an affect on you.Even though so long ago.As I have 2 grown up daughters now.Yet it always hurt me knowing they never knew there grandparents especially at birthdays or Christmas.I was not so lucky I never got adopted I was put in a children's home and the less said about it the better because of the abuse I suffered from the age of 3 until I was 15 years old.But I am a survivor and not a victim and my daughter's mean the world to me.So if anyone who is reading this has the same sort of background to me please remember it's not your fault that you are very beautiful and strong.Always hold on strong to the love of truth and the truth of love as this will pave your way to a very positive present and future.I never had any counselling I did it all myself by writing down exactly how I felt.Until I did not fear anyone anymore I never gave in with the abuse that I got and it was horrendous but I beat it and have emerged to be a winner a survivor and as I said not a victim.So remember no what your circumstances you are all beautiful and unique in your own way.This is to everyone living in this world no matter what you have to face.Remember your strong beautiful and always positive in all that you do God bless everyone and the ones who will read this comment.

If I were left outside for somebody to find me or not, I wouldn’t want anything to do with that woman the father seems great I’m glad he connected with his father!

Cold, heartless, birth mother, then and now. You don’t leave your baby in a box to die. It is a miracle the youngsters found him before hypothermia set in.

I am adopted and it hurts to feel abandoned

My heart breaks for Ben in trying to find a connection with his birth mother, however, i am elated that he was truly embraced by his birth father. What a tremendous gift and blessing for Ben and to have also been embraced by his brothers. Class acts. How unfortunate for the female line. They are missing out on having a relationship with a wonderful man. Their tremendous loss.

Geez, that was intense... My heart aches for him and I feel like yelling at his biological mother. I'm just glad though that he is loved by the man who raised him and he is moving on the best he can with such a letdown.

My God,my heart break for this man. Monster mom.

The mom just abandoned him twice.

I nearly cried watching this. We cannot judge this woman. Only God knows what her issues are. I did hope for him that she would at least get meet him and answer questions. Even if she said, I can only see you once and no more. Every person should be entitled to that. Maybe that's why God put him in better hands. My heart goes out to him. I'm so happy that his father and brothers embraced him. Bless them all forever!💋❤

Aww, so sad, he's better off without her. Glad his father embraced him and hope he doesn't let her stop him from living a wonderful life.

The least the mother could do, was to meet her biological son. To make him feel better, but also tell him she doesn't want anything to do with him. So that he at least saw her once, in his lifetime. He spend years to look for her, and she just straight up rejected him like that, is just cruel.

Thank you for sharing your story, and for your service. So brave to go out to find your biological parents, and for being brave enough to shoulder your mother's ignorance at not opening her heart and life to you, and possibly her biggest regret on her deathbed. May you make wonderful , and happy new memories with your birth father, who is obviously overjoyed to have gained another son who he is so proud of. God bless xx

Thank God for his father

Shame on that mother for abandoning her son & then rejecting him again!

I can’t believe a mother would treat her own son like that! Omg!

He lucked out - there's no way you want anything to do with someone who leaves a baby in a box in a parking lot

“Go back to where you’re from and love your family” like she knows anything about loving a family

His dad seems like a super nice and pure guy... that made me so happy.

Something similar happened in my family. It all started when my grandmother received an Ancestry DNA kit for Christmas a couple years ago. She was just excited to see if she really was part Italian. But then, she got multiple hits from relatives. She found out that her father had cheated on her mother and it resulted in a baby. When she contacted this man, he broke down because he said that since he bounced around in foster care his whole life, he never felt like he really belonged. My grandma and my dad were both ready to welcome him into our family, but my grandma’s siblings still resent him because he reminds them of their fathers wrongdoings. Sigh. My grandma also found some cousins because he uncle cheated on her aunt and had multiple children with multiple different women. Honestly there’s a lot of shitty guys in my family. And all the kids they had were given up so they were adopted/given up.

Wow..... she didn’t have to be so rude to him.

Isn't it weird they're wearing the same shirt and the same color

Approaching the woman not only unannounced but while she was in a public place was a ballsy move that likely was the reason it blew up in his face.

God bless and don't worry good don't sleep...she'll one day have to answer for what she did

So glad he found his loving father and brothers. Sad about his birth mom. I wonder if she feared charges so many years later on child abandonment. Is there a statute of limitations? Her loss. He seems like a great guy. Kudos to his adoptive parents.

Whoaaa... Ben and his dad are splitting images of each other

Tears of joy for you and your bio-father. I am adopted too. I recently found my bio-family. My bio-father passed awhile ago. His 2 sistershave welcomed me into the family. My bio- mother wants nothing to do with me as well.

Whoever gets rid of their child in a box obviously has issues.

Im sorry but anyone that can leave their newborn baby (unwanted or not ) in a cardboard box near a dumpster where anything could've got him she doesn't deserve this mans love ! She could so have easily left in with a note in a public building/hospital

Heartbroken about the bio mom’s response. That has to be tough words to hear. Glad that the bio dad is accepting.

Warms my heart that your dad accepted you with open arms, dont feel bad about your mom, its her fault and she got no heart what so ever, i hope everything works out great in your life, and feel blessed your dad is such a nice guy, if he knew about you sooner, he probably would have done something about it, best of wishes to you.