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When adopting a seven year old from Russia, that child can't speak English, probably hasn't started school yet, and will likely to face some intense overstimulation from the assault to the senses that happens when coming to America following life in a Russian orphanage - in addition to whatever learning disabilities brought on by the lack of neurological development caused by the deprivation of orphanage life and fetal alcohol that this young girl has.  Perhaps getting this young girl to the point where people don't recognize her from Russia will be an accomplishment because it will mean that she is caught up educationally and that they've been able to socialize her and successfully integrate her into normal family life.
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The school system in Russia is better than America
7 year olds do go to school there. They have preschools and kindergartens, and orphanage children attend these
Every adoptee has a different story. Every adoptee has not been in the orphanage all their lives, they do not all have learning disabilites, lack neurological develepment, fetal alcohol syndrome
Perhaps we can do more than say she must catch up educationally, be able to socialize(?) and hope for the day she will not be recognized as the adoptee from Russia with neurological development difficiencies, fetal alcohol syndrome and learning disabilities
There actually are bad adoptive families. Every adoption does not end up with a happy family. It should be about providing children that do not have a family, with a family, not providing families with children. And the needs of the child is what should be the main concern, not the needs of the a-family

By the sounds of it, this family should not have been allowed to adopt, and neither should some lunatics on this forum[/quote]

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