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Wednesday, March 8, 2006 12:00 AM

Open adoption, broken heart

I knew it would be hard for my daughter's birth mother to give her up. I just didn't expect to feel so guilty for taking her.
By Dawn Friedman

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  • Wednesday, March 8, 2006 11:55 AM

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    JohnnieGirl, I didn't go through open adoption for my daughter. My daughter was born in Russia. My main point is that there's no recipe for family. Whether it's through childbirth, open adoption, international adoption, step children, no children, whatever... family is whatever you make it. It's limiting and unfair (and trust me when I say this: especially unfair to the child who was adopted) to cast a taint of illegitimacy of a family because it wasn't created through "blood."

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