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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But if you're buying books, be thoughtful about it. There are great books for all parents, great books for special situations, and some that just don't work in for adoptive and/or single parent families. (My mom kept insisting that we needed to read Are You My Mother? which is a fun book but is really focused on the fact that the bird is looking for a mom that looks like it--and, you know, I don't look like my kid. But my mom also knocked it out of the park with Mother Bruce, which is one of my all time favorites.)[/quote] There are many great books for different families nowadays, but I would let the mom make those choices. Some are a bit heavy handed or too religious. If the baby is an actual baby, books may be premature anyway. (Unless you get one that has all spaces for family photos, so the child can learn their new family members. But as stated above, make sure they don't talk about the father.)[/quote]
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