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Parental guidance: Adoption questions

Experts answer your adoption questions.

Photo credit: iStock | Experts answer your adoption questions.

Q. What should I tell my adopted child to say when a curious friend innocently asks, "Why don't you look like your mom?"

A. There's not really a magic answer, says Stella Gilgur-Cook, assistant director of outreach for Spence-Chapin, a child welfare and adoption organization with an office in Hauppauge. Every internationally adopted child or child of a different race from the adoptive parents...

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