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Why adoptive parents fear their child's origin story

We adopted our son at three and now at sixteen he wants to find his birth parents and I am terrified he will love them more than us.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The adoptive parent's insecurity about their legitimacy surfaces when the child seeks their biological roots.

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