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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 710517" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Here is s story similar to yours with the boy/girl factor.</p><p></p><p>Friends adopted a 1 and 2 year old, girl and boy sibling group. Mother was a drug abuser with schizophrenia and so they were exposed in utero and predisposed to mental illness. Both were awful for a long time.Boy would get violent and become psychotic. Police there often.</p><p></p><p>The parents tried everything. Along the way both kids were sent to a day treatment school. It was a Godsend for the girl. She turned it around and has been great and normal ever since. She is my FB friend and doing so well.</p><p></p><p>The boy got worse and started getting more violent with psychotic episodes. The police kept coming. Finally one day he tried to touch his eight year old younger sister. To a psychologist he admitted that he, a twelve year old, was attracted to young children and wanted to have sex with them including but not limited to his younger sister.</p><p></p><p>He never lived at home again. Too risky to his younger sister and other neighborhood kids. He did visit home with intense supervision but grew very ill and never got better.</p><p></p><p>Just another weird example of two kids, both given the same help, with the girl doing well and the boy not. They feel besides attachment problems that tje boy may develop schizophrenia, like his birthmother.</p><p></p><p>I dont know for sure if boys do worse than girls in adoption situations, just my example, this and one more boy who burned the family house down. While his family watched the house being destroyed he showed no emotion and finally asked,"can we gat McDonalds?" The mother had to be held back. She was going for his throat.</p><p></p><p>I hear he never got better either. He was removed from the family at their request and they had to live in a hotel for a few months while the house was rebuilt. He had threatened to hurt them, but the parents didnt believe he would really try to do it. But he did.</p><p></p><p>You are not alone, trust me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 710517, member: 1550"] Here is s story similar to yours with the boy/girl factor. Friends adopted a 1 and 2 year old, girl and boy sibling group. Mother was a drug abuser with schizophrenia and so they were exposed in utero and predisposed to mental illness. Both were awful for a long time.Boy would get violent and become psychotic. Police there often. The parents tried everything. Along the way both kids were sent to a day treatment school. It was a Godsend for the girl. She turned it around and has been great and normal ever since. She is my FB friend and doing so well. The boy got worse and started getting more violent with psychotic episodes. The police kept coming. Finally one day he tried to touch his eight year old younger sister. To a psychologist he admitted that he, a twelve year old, was attracted to young children and wanted to have sex with them including but not limited to his younger sister. He never lived at home again. Too risky to his younger sister and other neighborhood kids. He did visit home with intense supervision but grew very ill and never got better. Just another weird example of two kids, both given the same help, with the girl doing well and the boy not. They feel besides attachment problems that tje boy may develop schizophrenia, like his birthmother. I dont know for sure if boys do worse than girls in adoption situations, just my example, this and one more boy who burned the family house down. While his family watched the house being destroyed he showed no emotion and finally asked,"can we gat McDonalds?" The mother had to be held back. She was going for his throat. I hear he never got better either. He was removed from the family at their request and they had to live in a hotel for a few months while the house was rebuilt. He had threatened to hurt them, but the parents didnt believe he would really try to do it. But he did. You are not alone, trust me. [/QUOTE]
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