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Whether to support your child's relationship with absent biological parents

I have raised my granddaughter since she was two and now at sixteen she wants to reconnect with her biological father who abandoned her and I am afraid of losing her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The primary caregiver faces the painful possibility that unconditional love means supporting relationships that might diminish their own central role.

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