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[quote=Anonymous]One thing we were told in a pre-adoption class was that all teens are full of angst - teens who were adopted may blame it on adoption. Nonadopted teens will blame it on something else. This it not to say that adopted teens don’t have special issues and deep wounds from being adopted, but nonadopted teens are often full of anger as well. Please don’t emphasize to your teen how awful their lives would have been had they stayed in their birth country. While we don’t want to sugar coat things, it is also important to encourage a sense of pride in the child in his ethnic and biological-familial background. My son is much more good looking than his adoptive parents and he is an amazing musician - I occasionally (when appropriate) will wonder aloud to him if his birth parents have his profile and can sing like he does.[/quote]
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