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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 698016" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>I have known children who were adopted at the age of three and six, for example, and who in their behaviour and development seem indistinguishable from "normal" kids - unlike my own adopted child, adopted at the age of three months, who has many issues and difficulties. What I am struck by is how many kids are affected by divorce and the loss of a father or certainly loss of a full-time father. I guess there is an essential mystery at work - nobody can predict how the combination of genes and what has happened in utero will interact with environment and nurture. Of course there are broad themes and we can safely say that children who experience severe abuse and/or neglect in infancy simply cannot go on to develop normally... beyond that - I don't think we can generalise. Thank goodness, really...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 698016, member: 11227"] I have known children who were adopted at the age of three and six, for example, and who in their behaviour and development seem indistinguishable from "normal" kids - unlike my own adopted child, adopted at the age of three months, who has many issues and difficulties. What I am struck by is how many kids are affected by divorce and the loss of a father or certainly loss of a full-time father. I guess there is an essential mystery at work - nobody can predict how the combination of genes and what has happened in utero will interact with environment and nurture. Of course there are broad themes and we can safely say that children who experience severe abuse and/or neglect in infancy simply cannot go on to develop normally... beyond that - I don't think we can generalise. Thank goodness, really... [/QUOTE]
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