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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here. The "not knowing" part can also be true for bio kids.[/quote]

Yes, but just the fact of being adopted puts a kid more at risk for all sorts of mental health issues.

Also, consider that someone putting their child for adoption may well have issues--certainly any parent whose child is taken by CPS.

On the whole, an adopted child is just more at risk--it doesn't mean don't adopt, but go in prepared to have therapy (and possibly more) at some point.

(I say this from extensive reading related to a parent's experience as an adoptee.)[/quote]

Most kids via child welfare have mental health issues being removed from their home/parents whom they were bonded with and bounced around to different foster homes.  If you get a direct from home foster placement and it works out to adoption, that is best.  Most of the kids come in due to parental mental health or substance abuse.  It has to be pretty serious to remove a child.  Others come in for sexual and physical abuse but usually there is a mental health or substance abuse component or they'd just work with the parents to keep the kids at home.  These kids will need therapy and support services.

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