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Scenario

How to explain adoption to a child asking painful questions about birth parents

My seven year old keeps asking why his birth mom didn't want him and I don't know how to answer without lying or breaking his heart.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The collision between a child's need for truth and a parent's instinct to protect creates an impossible choice between honesty and harm.

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Rabia
Rabia works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Adoptive parenting?”

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