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It can take years for adoptive parents to think of their acquired boy or girl as their own, not a stranger. Believing that natural mothers and fathers know things they don′t, they remain uneasy. They blame themselves when their youngster won′t eat or is afraid of the dark.
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Verville, E. (1995). Adoption. In: The Parent’s Preschooler Dictionary. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0239-4_1
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