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Scenario

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.

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.

Your guide for this
Rabia
Rabia works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Birth and early bonding?”

Peri

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