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Fantasies About Their Birth Parents

Suddenly, your daughter's birth parents are world-class athletes or astronauts on a dangerous mission to space. What gives?

by JoAnne Solchany, Ph.D.

TAGS: Birth Culture, Birth Family, Birth Fathers, Birth Mothers, School, School-Aged Children, Talking with Kids About Adoption

• Parenting
• School Kids
• Talking
• Talking to Kids

June 1, 2007

Your child may never have met his first mom and dad. But that doesn’t mean he’s not spinning stories about them.

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