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Telling Family & Friends About Our Adoption Plans

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Talking to family and friends about our adoption plans, we can often be surprised at how little or how much they know, and how they express themselves. Here are resources to help to share our plans, and find ways of dealing with the insensitive or uninformed.

One of the most important lessons for everyone in our lives.

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The Announcement
Adoptive parent and author Patricia Irwin Johnston offers some thoughts on telling family and friends about your adoption plans.

The Guy on the Street and New-Tech Babies
Once again, adoption and infertility author and publisher Patricia Irwin Johnston offers on-the-mark advice.

Top Five Hot Buttons Not to Push!
Excerpted from Pat Johnston's book, "Adoption Is a Family Affair! What Relatives and Friends Must Know".

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