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  • Community Wisdom

    My child’s birth parents send unequal amount of presents. How do I handle it?

    5 Comments
  • Community Wisdom

    I am looking for advice on how to accomplish maintaining meaningful contact with our son’s addicted birth parents.

    9 Comments
  • Community Wisdom

    How and when do I tell my child that she has a younger brother that was given up by her parents for an open adoption?

    3 Comments
  • Community Wisdom

    How do you explain to your child that extended members of their bio family don’t want to know about them?

    5 Comments
  • Community Wisdom

    Should we have our child’s birth mom come to visit at our house?

    11 Comments
  • Community Wisdom

    Our daughter’s birth parents recently separated and visits are now awkward. Any advice?

    4 Comments
  • Community Wisdom

    How can we see more of our son’s birthmom without her parents?

    5 Comments
  • Research

    Seeking Birth Parents to Interview

    2 Comments
  • Community Wisdom

    Openness when adopting older kids from foster care?

    3 Comments
  • Community Wisdom

    I love my sister (my daughter's bio mom) but I don't want her in my daughter's life. How do I explain the relationship?

    1 Comment
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    • We set boundaries on the basis of what is best for our children.
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