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When Your Stepchild Says Your Baby Will Be the 'Real' Child

I'm pregnant and my teenage stepdaughter keeps making comments about how this baby will be the 'real' child and I don't know how to address it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A child's fear of being replaced is expressing itself through language that reinforces the very hierarchies that threaten their security.

Ideas that help explain it
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