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Peggy Drexler

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Peggy Drexler: Adopting A New Attitude

Author, assistant professor of psychology at Cornell Medical School

They used to tell adopted children that they were special because they'd been chosen. I've told my adopted child that I don't believe that. Neither adoption nor birth conveys status to a child.

 

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