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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d say putting them in counselling / therapy from day one (even if it’s play therapy).

Every single one of the adopted people I know has attachment, mood, or substance abuse problems. That includes within my own extended family. Now, I’m not saying that attachment and substance abuse issues don’t occur with “everyone else”, but I find it interesting that every adoptee I know has an issue. And that’s including those, who by all accounts (including their own) have had a happy life with their adoptive family.

I’ll be honest.. so many thread on THIS board have convinced me that I would never adopt, nor adopt a child I had and couldn’t keep, for whatever reason. [/quote]

genetics?  There is a reason the bio mom was in a position to have to give up her child.  Likely her genetics were passed down to child. So not caused by adoption itself. Attachment would be the one thing connected to adoption, but substance abuse and mood issues are genetic.  I am considering adoption and understand that that the child i get will likely have a genetic predisposition to . . . issues. But I want a family not perfect children.[/quote]

Well, my child was the result of an affair, but her birth parents seem to be no different than the many people on this board who also have affairs.[/quote]

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