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[quote=Anonymous]I second 10:11. Your DH has to absolutely be on board to the same extent. Especially with attachment-disordered children---which many older adoptees are. Attachment disorder is a broad description of the general issues that children who have suffered trauma, neglect, abandonment can have. Those issues can vary in severity, depending on the child and the degree of pre-adoption trauma. Deborah Gray is a psychologist who has written several very good books on attachment issues. There is another book called "The Connected Child" which is also very good about older child adoption and how one goes about building a bond. We also have faced prenatal alcohol exposure (very difficult to deal with---because it is essentially a brain injury) and attachment issues. [/quote]
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