Illegitimate children: how to build oneself when one of his parents is not his father?

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How do you build your identity if you grew up in secrecy?

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By: Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

Illegitimate child, child of love, bastard ... different names that refer to the same situation: living with a parent who is not his parent.

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Difficult to know how many people are affected, some not even knowing.

All come from a unique story, sometimes happy, sometimes secret or even taboo.

For those who find out that they are not the children of their father or mother, sometimes it is difficult to talk about it and accept it.

How to build your identity when you grew up in secrecy?

How to accept its origins?  

With

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- Marie Lemeland

, author of the book 

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Creator with photographer Svend Andersen of the

project 

, a gallery of portraits and testimonies on family secrets linked to filiation.

- Maureen Boigen

, psychotherapist, trainer, specialized in transgenerational therapies.

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