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How to navigate adoption questions and assumptions

I adopted my daughter as an infant and she is three months old now and people keep commenting on how she looks like me and I do not know whether to correct them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Adoption creates ongoing moments where social assumptions about family formation require navigation and decision-making about disclosure.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Birth and early bonding?”

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