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"forced contact"
Clinically, and in terms of YOUR relationship with your children, making the child have contact with a bio parent is not good and will be destructive. If there has been any history of abuse or neglect your making the child have contact is akin to making a scared child go into the haunted house...it undermines your role as a parent to protect and be attuned with your child.
If you have reasons for wanting to encourage contact, then you should involve the child in therapy with an appropriate provider so the child can work through the issues of trauma, abandonment, etc.
regards
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Dr. Arthur Becker-Weidman
Adoptive Parent
Specialist in Adoption and Foster care issues.
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