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Diane Friedman’s essay challenges a core cultural assumption concerning the experience of adoptive mothers. Revisiting the kinship binary (the idea that blood is thicker than water), she underscores the problematics of being an adoptive parent and argues for a both/and perspective that recognizes the complexities of that role.