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Adopted kids with addictions --what about their birthparents?
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<blockquote data-quote="pepperidge" data-source="post: 508526" data-attributes="member: 2322"><p>Thanks for your input. I guess all we can do is to point out to our kids what the genetic predispositions they might have are, what they choose to make of the information is theirs. Once you have provided decent parenting it really is in their hands and it is good to be reminded of that. Has anybody seen any good statistics around the notion of if you can get them to a certain age without using they are more likely to remain sober? </p><p></p><p>But you know I just get really angry thinking about these alcohol and drug abusing kids having babies. It is so hard to raise kids with fetal alcohol or other brain damage. Ok this is going to get me into big trouble, but you know sometimes I have trouble with people who seem to think that it is so wonderful to bring these kids with major issues into the world to be raised either by own dysfunctional families in many cases or perhaps in some others, by adoptive families, many or most of whom don't really know what they are getting into. I see the toll it takes on families here. And I look at my own kids and at the limitations of their development and how society basically treats them as "bad" kids when really they are fighting a major uphill battle. Not trying to start a major discussion here, just venting</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pepperidge, post: 508526, member: 2322"] Thanks for your input. I guess all we can do is to point out to our kids what the genetic predispositions they might have are, what they choose to make of the information is theirs. Once you have provided decent parenting it really is in their hands and it is good to be reminded of that. Has anybody seen any good statistics around the notion of if you can get them to a certain age without using they are more likely to remain sober? But you know I just get really angry thinking about these alcohol and drug abusing kids having babies. It is so hard to raise kids with fetal alcohol or other brain damage. Ok this is going to get me into big trouble, but you know sometimes I have trouble with people who seem to think that it is so wonderful to bring these kids with major issues into the world to be raised either by own dysfunctional families in many cases or perhaps in some others, by adoptive families, many or most of whom don't really know what they are getting into. I see the toll it takes on families here. And I look at my own kids and at the limitations of their development and how society basically treats them as "bad" kids when really they are fighting a major uphill battle. Not trying to start a major discussion here, just venting [/QUOTE]
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