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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 365817" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Beach, hi. I have five adopted kids. It started out at seven, but one of them abused my younger kids sexually...that ended with him and our newest leaving. When anyone adopts a child with fetal alcohol issues, they are signing up for problems/issues related to brain damage and it is "iffy" how much of a difference you can make because this truly is the fault of the birthparent who drank while pregnant. It's not a behavioral problem.</p><p></p><p>Are you familiar with fetal alcohol effects? It is a very difficult lifelong problem that requires lifelong close management. The kids have no idea how to learn right from wrong...they don't get it or remember it. Even high functioning Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE) kids/adults have serious brain damage and problems. From what I've seen in friends Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE) adult kids, many end up young parents who lose parental rights, alcoholics (although they are warned not to drink because of the genetic factor), criminals (because they repeat the same mistakes over and over again and don't "get it") etc.</p><p></p><p>Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE) are pretty much the same except Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE) doesn't include facial feature differences or mental retardation. But the people afflicted with it have the same life problems. I feel this article is pretty much everything I had been told. I took my son to a top specialist in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)/Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE) in Chicago so I did learn a lot. I don't have any answers. This is very difficult to live with, and although it looks like a psychiatric problem, it's not. Good luck, whatever you decide to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 365817, member: 1550"] Beach, hi. I have five adopted kids. It started out at seven, but one of them abused my younger kids sexually...that ended with him and our newest leaving. When anyone adopts a child with fetal alcohol issues, they are signing up for problems/issues related to brain damage and it is "iffy" how much of a difference you can make because this truly is the fault of the birthparent who drank while pregnant. It's not a behavioral problem. Are you familiar with fetal alcohol effects? It is a very difficult lifelong problem that requires lifelong close management. The kids have no idea how to learn right from wrong...they don't get it or remember it. Even high functioning Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE) kids/adults have serious brain damage and problems. From what I've seen in friends Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE) adult kids, many end up young parents who lose parental rights, alcoholics (although they are warned not to drink because of the genetic factor), criminals (because they repeat the same mistakes over and over again and don't "get it") etc. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE) are pretty much the same except Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE) doesn't include facial feature differences or mental retardation. But the people afflicted with it have the same life problems. I feel this article is pretty much everything I had been told. I took my son to a top specialist in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)/Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE) in Chicago so I did learn a lot. I don't have any answers. This is very difficult to live with, and although it looks like a psychiatric problem, it's not. Good luck, whatever you decide to do. [/QUOTE]
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