Pamela Kruger was recently the subject - or one of the subjects - of a New York magazine article on adoption. Unfortunately, the question posed by the article - "Do parents really love adopted children differently than their own offspring?" - reveals just how ill-informed much of the media remains about the true challenges faced by adoptive families.

"Too often the media raises the question of can you love an adopted child as if that was THE critical question to adoptive families when that really is a fleeting fear that comes and passes before a couple adopts; and too often the adoption community has been invested in responding by stressing how 'normal' their families are."

Kruger goes on to say that, just as single parents and multiracial families have issues to deal with, so do adoptive families - but those issues shouldn't be given so much attention. Instead, she says, more attention should be given to the joyful though complex realities of these "new family constellations". Read more at HuffingtonPost.com.

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