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KarenK122 The Journey is the Destination Member since 5/05 4431 total posts Name: Karen	Re: Explaining adoption to DD Posted by nrthshgrl I would explain that families come on different ways. Some babies are born from their parents and other babies are born from another woman and their parents then adopt them. I would not refer to the bio person as a mom or mother (that comes with being a mom) I wouldn't say someone couldn't take care of them (so if you can't take care of J, is she going to think you will have someone adopt her) , and I wouldn't say they grew in their heart instead of their belly (biological children grow in a parents heart just as much as adopted children) . I totally agree with what you wrote. As a parent of an adopted DD from China we have spoken to her from the day she came home that she was adopted. She is 5 and has been asked for years why she looks different than me and DH. Her answer....because I'm chinese silly! : ). What I tell other children that ask (like my nephew and what we told/tell my DD) is that there are all different types of families, two mommies, two daddies, one mommy/daddy, parents that look alike and those that don't but they all love their children very much. It is the love that matters not who or what your family looks like. We also told her that she had a birth mother (because she asked where she came from) but I was her forever mother. Some children have birth mothers and forever mothers that are the same person and some do not. So far that answer is good enough : ).
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