“I Don’t Want This Baby After All”! New Post on Psychology Today Blog
Have you been following the story about the family that adopted a one-year-old baby, but decided they couldn’t continue to be his parents after 18 months? Please check out my new post on my Psychology Today blog: ” ‘I don’t want this baby after all!’: Judging Anita Tedaldi.”
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October 7th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
There’s an old expression which holds true here: “Don’t judge another until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes”.
Susan Wisdom
Author, Stepcoupling