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When Adoptive Parents Face Racial Assumptions

My adopted daughter is the same race as my husband but different from mine and people assume she is only his child and it makes me feel invisible as her mother.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The erasure that happens when family bonds are judged by surface similarities rather than chosen love.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Adoptive parenting?”

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