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Dear Adoption Maharishi: Can Someone with PTSD Adopt a Child?
Dear Adoption Maharishi,My husband is a soldier who has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and he is worried that this diagnosis will prevent us from adopting a child. Can...
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Dear Adoption Maharishi: What to Say to Friend when Adoption Falls Through
Dear Adoption Maharishi,My friend and her husband are infertile and have been wanting to become parents for a long time. They were matched with a 16-year-old girl who decided to keep the baby after he...
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Dear Adoption Maharishi: Who Decides about Circumcision?
Dear Adoption Maharishi,My husband and I have been matched with an expectant mother who is carrying a boy. My husband and I would like to make the decision about whether or not to circumcise the baby...
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Dear Adoption Maharishi: Portrayal of Adoption on “Dallas”
Dear Adoption Maharishi,Are you watching the new version of the TV show “Dallas?” What are your thoughts about the portrayal of adoption on “Dallas?”~ Dallas Fanread more
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Dear Adoption Maharishi: Fantasies about Birthmother
Dear Adoption Maharishi,On The Secret Life of the American Teenager, a new character, who is a teenaged adoptee, talked about her feelings toward her birthmother. She said she had fantasies about her...
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Dear Adoption Maharishi: First Meeting between Birthmother and Adoptive Parents
Dear Adoption Maharishi,On this week’s episode of Secret Life of the American Teenager, a birthmother met the adoptive parents she chose for her unborn baby for the first time. I know that some things...
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Dear Adoption Maharishi: Moral Responsibility for International and...
Dear Adoption Maharishi,Did you see Pat Robertson discussing international adoption on the 700 Club? I don’t watch the show, but I caught a clip on the radio with the DJ’s interrupting to criticize...
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Dear Adoption Maharishi: When to Tell Adopted Child about Adoption
Dear Adoption Maharishi,I was watching a marathon of Switched at Birth and saw an episode from Season One where 16-year-old Daphne (played by Katie Leclerc) asks her mother why she didn’t tell her...
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Dear Adoption Maharishi: Birth Family Showing Up on the Doorstep
Dear Adoption Maharishi,On the TV show Royal Pains, Paige’s birthmother showed up on Paige’s doorstep wanting to meet her. Technically, she showed up at her office, not her home, but still… What are...
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Dear Adoption Maharishi: Freely Receive and Freely Give
Dear Adoption Maharishi,My husband and I spent all of our savings on infertility treatments, in part because we were so determined to “make our own baby.” Now that a few years have passed and we have...
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