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When past trauma affects decisions about LGBTQ+ parenting

I'm a gay man whose husband wants to adopt children but I'm terrified of subjecting kids to the discrimination I experienced growing up and I don't know if that makes me a coward or realistic.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The wounds we carry from our own childhoods can become barriers to creating the families we dream of building.

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