7 billion neighbors

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

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How to build your identity if you grew up in secret?

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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 being aware of it.

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

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

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

How to accept its origins?  

Rebroadcast of Wednesday, October 13, 2021

With

:

- 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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- Nepal 

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