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How to Handle Family Members Who Minimize Adoption

My mother-in-law constantly refers to our adopted daughter as our little foster child even though we corrected her a hundred times and it makes me furious.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The grinding work of defending your family's legitimacy against those who should support it most.

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