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When Adoptive Parents Have Biological Children Later

I am pregnant after years of infertility and we already adopted our son and I am afraid he will think we replaced him even though that is not true at all.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The fear that expanding love might be interpreted as evidence that previous love was insufficient.

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