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Myths and Misunderstandings

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Raising adopted children is just like raising biological children.

Raising adopted children is nothing like raising biological children.

Adopted children never bond/attach to their adoptive parents or siblings.

Adopted children easily, quickly, and lastingly bond/attach to their adoptive parents and siblings.

Adoptive parents are/were too lenient or permissive.

Adoptive parents are/were too strict or authoritative.

Adoptees always want to find their birth mother and/or family.

Adoptees never want to find their birth mother and/or family.





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* DRAFT * Accountability: Alienated child/adult/person: Anthropology (Biblical): Attached: Authority: Birth mother/parent/sibling: Biological mother/parent/sibling: Bonded: "Older" child adoption:
"A mother's grief is uniquely painful, and yet she [his wife] kept lamenting and trusting--never giving in to despair. I've watched her lament with more grieving mothers than I can count. I've seen mercy emerge within dark clouds as pain became a platform, not a pit."  Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament