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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 410589" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I adopted an eleven year old boy who turned out to be a psychopath. He sexually abused all of my other children (they too were adopted) and the kids were too afraid of him to tell us (they were all much younger). </p><p></p><p>As for C if she was exposed to drugs and alcohol and, on top of it, was neglected, I hate to be pessimistic, but it's a long, long, long, tiresome haul with usually poor results from all that I've seen in adoption land. These are not the same as healthy infant adoptions! She is likely to get even more dangerous and act out even more as s he gets older. medications are unlikely to help her that much. She was damaged way before husband got her...both physically through drug/alcohol exposure and emotionally due to severe abuse. Some kids can't be saved...sad but true, as we learned. In fact, some are harmful to other kids. And adults too!</p><p></p><p>Wish I could give different advice, but I strongly, strongly, STRONGLY suggest you get your children out of there before it's too late. Welcome to the board and I'm sorry I couldn't be more optimistic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 410589, member: 1550"] I adopted an eleven year old boy who turned out to be a psychopath. He sexually abused all of my other children (they too were adopted) and the kids were too afraid of him to tell us (they were all much younger). As for C if she was exposed to drugs and alcohol and, on top of it, was neglected, I hate to be pessimistic, but it's a long, long, long, tiresome haul with usually poor results from all that I've seen in adoption land. These are not the same as healthy infant adoptions! She is likely to get even more dangerous and act out even more as s he gets older. medications are unlikely to help her that much. She was damaged way before husband got her...both physically through drug/alcohol exposure and emotionally due to severe abuse. Some kids can't be saved...sad but true, as we learned. In fact, some are harmful to other kids. And adults too! Wish I could give different advice, but I strongly, strongly, STRONGLY suggest you get your children out of there before it's too late. Welcome to the board and I'm sorry I couldn't be more optimistic. [/QUOTE]
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