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[quote=Anonymous]I have mixed feelings about this. In my state, when adopting a child in the care of the state, you are required to essentially foster the prospective adoptee child for a certain amount of time (I can't recall, but it's not a short period of time either). This is absolutely a "trial period." My family adopted a boy with a very traumatic history and very severe and ultimately permanent emotional problems. He was about 5 when he came to my family. He had already been passed through SEVERAL prospective adoptive families at that point, who had not made it through that "trial period" with him, because of his rough behaviors and emotional disregulation. He clearly had reactive attachment disorder, but that wasn't even a diagnosis then, and certainly not common knowledge. It was damaging for him to get passed from one family to another, obviously. But I think it would have been even more damaging for any of those families to have adopted him, not knowing what they were signing up for, and realizing too late that it was more than they could/would handle. This is a recipe for abuse, among other things. [/quote]

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