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[quote=Anonymous]If you are not using a lawyer or agency, you should to be sure everything is done legally and that once the adoption occurs it can't e overturned.

Agree with PPs who suggest educating yourself on issues with adopting older kids.  I did it three times and there are challenges you face that are different than those adopting or having a baby.  Educating yourself on loss and attachment issues would be helpful, as well as on resources for support.  I have a large support network and most people say that this network was really helpful during the early years after adoption and that people outside the network didn't understand what they were going through.

I know someone posted a link to facial features for alcohol exposure.  Don't get comfortable is you don't see signs in the child.  Often kids don't develop the features until they start losing their teeth and getting adult ones.  Also cognitive signs of FASD often don't show up until kids are older.  The people I know who hade FASD kids (which admittedly is anecdotal information) never saw signs in their kids until middle elementary school.  All the kids I know we're diagnosed in third grade.

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