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Why Adoptive Parents Have Conflicted Feelings

I love my adopted daughter completely but sometimes I catch myself wondering what my biological child would have looked like and I feel like a terrible mother.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The human tendency to mourn unlived possibilities even while embracing chosen reality.

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