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Reply to "what's the easiest way to adopt a healthy older child?"
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[quote=Anonymous]Adoption agencies are in the business of getting kids adopted---especially the more evangelical ones---which, in my experience---gloss over very real and serious issues like FASD. I can only imagine the experience of some of these more religious families living in smaller towns and rural areas---who adopt older kids with serious issues and then have no support from the adoption agency or and few if any local professional resources to help them manage situations for which they were completely unprepared. Based on our experiences, I know so much more about FASD---its symptoms and management---than the adoption agency with whom we initially worked, which was focused much more on whether we were sufficiently "Christian" than they were on training us in how to handle potential issues. But we were fortunate to live in the DC metro area which has a very well-developed network of therapists and other clinicians who can offer useful assistance. [/quote]
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