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How to Handle Inappropriate Adoption Comments

My family keeps making comments about how lucky our adopted son is to have us and I can see it bothers him but I do not know how to make them stop.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The exhausting labor of protecting your child from others' inability to see adoption as anything but rescue.

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“Where Are You with Adoptive parenting?”

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