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Originally Posted by bromanchik
There is a great book called "Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child" by Betsy Keifer and Jayne Schooler. It is best to tell the child the truth in an age appropriate manner. This book helps you do that. The truth always comes out. Better they hear it from you than for some cold papers they find.
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Thank you for this resource! Both our kiddos have difficult stories (although different from the OP story)to tell and DH and I feel like we are in constant dialog about how and when and how much and all that. We want to be truthful and feel that our kids deserve and will demand the whole truth and we refuse to consider "fudging" or withholding, but also want to be able to speak of it all in a way that is the least hurtful to our kids, and in a way that they can understand and hopefully, to continue to honor their other parents and respect their place in the lives of our children. Thank you.