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What will be an ideal response?


May include the following:
a. half adopted explains the traits the mother cannot identify in her own extended family, both physical and personality
b. reducing feelings of stigma that are associated with donors but not with adoption
c. in the case of adoption, fathers have legal rights up until given, whereas donors do not ever have legal rights

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