Seligmann saw and interviewed various adoptive mom and dad and kids, non-adoptive households, non secular figures, academics and directors, and adoption agents. The e-book uncovers that adoption—once completely stigmatized—is now usually embraced both as a romanticized challenge of rescue or, conversely, as easily one amongst a number of how you can make a family.
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