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How to handle adopted children's questions about birth families

We adopted our daughter as a baby and she is asking about her birth parents and my husband thinks we should tell her everything but I am terrified of losing her.

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Adoptive parents must navigate the tension between their child's need for origin stories and their own fears of displacement.

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