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When your child chooses adoption over family raising the baby

My daughter is pregnant at seventeen and wants to place the baby for adoption but I want to raise my grandchild and she says that is not my choice to make.

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What we've seen

Her maternal instinct to keep family together conflicts with respecting her daughter's autonomous decision about an impossible situation.

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