This approach is of course highly relevant to people who were adopted who often have missing or incomplete information about their birth families as well as countless intersecting dualities in their lives: birth parents, adoptive parents, sometimes foster parents too. If they"ve been adopted from another country, they may also have multiple cultural identities, neither of which they may feel they can fully inhabit. Boss"s approach makes it clear that these children should not be made to feel that their differences don"t matter. Indeed, adoptees have suggested that they would have benefited from questions and ambiguities being openly discussed and embraced in adoptive families.