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By Linda Seligmann
Seligmann saw and interviewed quite a few adoptive mom and dad and youngsters, non-adoptive households, non secular figures, academics and directors, and adoption agents. The ebook uncovers that adoption—once completely stigmatized—is now frequently embraced both as a romanticized project of rescue or, conversely, as easily one amongst a number of how one can make a family.
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