If we don't adopt, help the people who are, do special things for them and for their children.

There's lots of ways, whatever we can do to reach out, because that's what Jesus did did and he's our body.

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When we started a conversation yesterday with Dr. Gary Chapman, Mr. Five Love Languages, and another

doctor, Dr. Laurel Shaler, who's sitting in back in our studio and we're going

to apply this Five Love languages concept to adopted families.

What's the name title?

What loving adopted children?

Well, I love their conversation yesterday.

I think it's really helpful.

If you miss, they go back and listen to it.

But one of the things you get into in the book like halfway through is not just how to apply

these love languages but when there's struggles in adoption or in adoptive families and I don't know that

we haven't adopted we have a son has two adopted kids but we've heard stories and

stories of struggles with adoptive kids.

Well, especially in the teen years,

some of those struggles come out.

That can be whether they've come into adoption

at a later age, or maybe they were adopted at birth can there be struggles at any

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