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Scenario

How to Explain Birth Parent Choices to Children

My eight-year-old daughter asks why her birth mom did not want to keep her and I have practiced answers but none of them feel true or kind enough.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The impossible task of making sense of abandonment in terms a child can bear.

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Rabia
Rabia works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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