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When Adult Adopted Children Express Lifelong Feelings

My adult adopted son told me he never felt like he belonged in our family and I thought we had given him everything and I do not understand what we did wrong.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The discovery that love's best intentions cannot always overcome the fundamental wound of early separation.

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“Where Are You with Adoptive parenting?”

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