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Reply to "what's the easiest way to adopt a healthy older child?"
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[quote=Anonymous]issues related to trauma =/= healthy. My kid is fairly physically healthy (takes no medicine, sees no specialists, could stand to lose a little weight, needed a cavity filled when he arrived) but we have multiple mental health appointments most weeks (at least therapy every week and trying to get OT for sensory stuff), lots of meetings and calls with school, and occasional police and crisis intervention situations at our house resulting in ER visits and, once, a psych hospitalization. This is a kid who was classified as having "mild" mental and health care needs and it's true--he' s never caused serious physical harm to anyone (just threats and bruises). But it is not what most people hope for when adopting. He isn't terrible all or even most of the time, but it's very different from the parenting experience of my friends with biological children.[/quote]
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