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Child-Centered Adoption: A Conversation with Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao

Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan

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Adoption and the Child Trafficking Problem

"Honesty and openness in adoption is most important," she says. "It can't be secrets. It needs to be known." There are models, there are ancient models for open adoption where there's a change of role and responsibility,. Some people will not be the parents of this child. They'll always be the birth mother or birth father but they'll become like a special aunt or uncle.

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