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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)/Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) parents - Would you adopt again?
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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 535045" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>This is very true. Although I adopted my own son when he was 3 months old (having first met him when he was a week old) and we are reasonably well bonded, I was absolutely driven by my own drive to be a mother, I now realise, and was totally sure that everything in the garden would be wonderful and rosy.... Though I'm the type of person who usually does a lot of research before embarking on things, for this I did almost NOTHING. Wasn't even aware that I could have been adopting someone whose mother had drunk/used drugs during the pregnancy.</p><p>Would I do it again? Well, in my case, yes I would. But I would be less rosy-eyed about what it would all involve. Or... maybe I wouldn't. Maybe it was that overwheliming desire to adopt a babythat enabled me to do it with so much passion and desire. </p><p>I'm really sorry about your experience. You adopted your children very late and it's very hard for the adoption to succeed in these circumstances, I know. I could only hope that in the future things may still change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 535045, member: 11227"] This is very true. Although I adopted my own son when he was 3 months old (having first met him when he was a week old) and we are reasonably well bonded, I was absolutely driven by my own drive to be a mother, I now realise, and was totally sure that everything in the garden would be wonderful and rosy.... Though I'm the type of person who usually does a lot of research before embarking on things, for this I did almost NOTHING. Wasn't even aware that I could have been adopting someone whose mother had drunk/used drugs during the pregnancy. Would I do it again? Well, in my case, yes I would. But I would be less rosy-eyed about what it would all involve. Or... maybe I wouldn't. Maybe it was that overwheliming desire to adopt a babythat enabled me to do it with so much passion and desire. I'm really sorry about your experience. You adopted your children very late and it's very hard for the adoption to succeed in these circumstances, I know. I could only hope that in the future things may still change. [/QUOTE]
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