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why the adoptive parent’s opinions matter

By: Tracy Dee Whitt April 23, 2015

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Everyone has opinions, and when you adopt or foster, you get ideas on how you should raise your kids from every which way. Birth mothers want to be called “mom,” or “mother,” but you want to refer to her as “birth mom.” Your son would like to call her, “tummy mommy,” but his birth mom…

birth family relationships (adoption/foster)

By: Tracy Dee Whitt May 15, 2014May 16, 2014

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My cousin, Dawn*, and I were teenagers when we sat on her living room floor flipping through a photo album. On the first page my Aunt Deidre* was pictured with a big smile, holding a precious baby with an adorable beauty mark on her forehead. That day, Dawn shared with me that her mom had…