Mothers see their children's friends doing a lot of things and they feel their own children should do the same.

母亲们看到孩子们的朋友们正在做许多事情，他们感到他们自己的孩子也应该这样做。

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She promised to see after the children when their mothers were on the night shift.

她答应在孩子们的妈妈上夜班时照顾这些孩子。

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Children gaped and were pulled away by mothers who wrinkled their noses and quickened their pace. Not once did I see a trace of caring.

身边的路人来来往往，男孩们睥睨地瞧着，孩子们傻傻地盯着她，马上被他们的母亲拉开，他们噤着鼻子，快步走掉，没有人—在我看来—投来关切目光。

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When open adoption started gaining traction in the late 1980s and early 1990s, critics argued it would confuse children about their identity and hurt their self-esteem, and that it would make birth mothers grieve longer as they continued to see the children.

WSJ: One Baby, Two Moms: a Rise in Open Adoptions