Pat Cameron takes to Facebook to find adopted son

Pat Cameron wants to make sure her son is all right.

In 1980, Cameron gave birth to a baby boy in Saskatoon and named him David Findlay Cameron. But she had to give him up for adoption and now 35 years later, she and her family have taken to Facebook to try and find him.

"I never gave up on wanting to find my son," Cameron told . "I even had it in the adoption papers that when he turned 18, I would like to have contact or meet him."

However, that didn't happen. Since it was a closed adoption, Cameron was never able to get much information from the provincial government.

Out of desperation, the family turned to Facebook to try and track their relative down.

"We don't have an adopted name, so we can't really do much searching," said sister Kyla Towsley. "It's about four or five years after we originally enquired, so we had seen stuff on Facebook where people are searching, so that's why we decided to do that post."

Cameron said she gave her son up because she didn't have a safe place to live at the time, and didn't have any supports to raise him.

"Did I make the right decision? Did he lead a happy life?" she asked. "I was also adopted, and I have since found my birth family, so I now have some medical information that was not available when I put him up for adoption."

Next year, the provincial government plans to make it easier for birth families to reunite by changing regulations.