1. CAN A NON-BIOLOGICAL
PARENT LOVE AND By
ADEQUATELY CARE FOR Jaime
Sandberg
A CHILD THAT IS NOT For
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BIOLOGICALLY
CONNECTED TO THEM?
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2. ANYONE CAN BE A BIOLOGICAL PARENT!
The comparison that
non-biological parents
don’t have that
“special” connection
with their children is
ignorant!
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3. MY OPINION
I believe that a majority of parents that do
not have a biological connection to a child
can show love and support to that child
equally
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4. MY VIEWS ON
STEP-PARENTS
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5. MY VIEWS ON STEP-PARENTS
I have seen many step-parents labeled as
inadequate in their parenting skills
Many because the child is struggling to
accept them
My husband and his family have shown
me that a step-parent and step-family
can take in children as their own
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6. MY VIEWS ON ADOPTIVE
PARENTS
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7. MY VIEWS ON ADOPTIVE PARENTS
I have seen many adoptive parents
struggle through the adoption process
only to be labeled not as adequate as a
biological parent
The stereotype that they cannot love
their children because they do not have a
biological connection is unfair and
unfounded
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8. MY ARGUMENT
Arguing FOR the non-biological parents
and AGAINST the judgment that they are
not capable of caring for children at an
equal emotional level as a biological
parent is.
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9. OBSTACLES
STEP-PARENTS
FACE
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10. OBSTACLES STEP-PARENTS FACE
 Could it possibly be that the biological parent is
keeping the stereotype of a step -parent alive?
 Subconsciously the biological parent could be
signaling their tensions to the children, which can
cause a ripple effect in the relationship with the
step-parent
 Maybe a close relative of the biological parent is
swaying the child’s or the biological parent,
themselves opinion of the step-parent’s parenting
skills
 Maybe the other biological parent is swaying the
image the children have of the step -parent
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11. OBSTACLES
ADOPTIVE
PARENTS FACE
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12. OBSTACLES ADOPTIVE PARENTS FACE
 Fear that the birth parent could come back into the picture
and take the child back
 This can cause a disconnect with the child for fear of loving them and
losing them
 Fear that the child will ask to meet the parent someday and
end up liking them more
 This also can cause a disconnect with the child
 Emptiness felt because of the inability to have a child
biologically
 This can cause resentment of the child
 This can also cause a disconnect with the child of they don’t meet the
parents standards (which would be sloughed off as “If you were my
biological child”)
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