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When Adopted Children Want Missing Family Members

I am a single adoptive mother and my son keeps asking for a dad and I do not know if I should date someone just to give him a father figure.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The impossible pressure to become everything a child has lost rather than enough of what they need.

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“Where Are You with Adoptive parenting?”

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