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As the parent of a special needs child, what you need to accept is that some issues can never be moneyed away. I know this because we are battling a combination of disorders in one of our bio kids - the ADHD/Asperger's/OCD/anxiety will not go away with a few check-the-box therapy sessions. He has this for life, and we have to help him for as long as we are able.

Older children in foster care are there for serious reasons. Their family had issues and these issues are often HERITABLE - it's not that sometimes their parent beat them up, no. It's that the parent has a mental illness which led them to violence, and that unfortunately the child may have inherited that disposition. That kind of thing. Or they may be neurologically impaired because of maternal drug use or other trauma, which leads them to impulsivity, addictive personalities, poor executive functioning, etc. Or... any number of things. Rarely, issues will be so slight as to be practically invisible. That is the exception, not the rule.

So just know what could happen, OP.

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