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[quote=Anonymous]My best friend in high school was one of six siblings who had grown up in foster care, starting when their ages ranged from 10 to 2.

I met their current and 2 former foster parents. All seemed like wonderful people, and cared very much for the kids - just weren’t in a position to adopt 6 kids permanently, and nobody wanted to split up the family of kids.

4 of the 6 ended up with serious issues - drugs, prison, or in one case fetal alcohol syndrome. 1 ended up your normal, middle class, state university graduate with loans, happy enough. 1 did really well, med school, a very kind and empathetic person, happily married.

The odds are good that there will be emotional attachment issues, and potentially fetal or early-childhood issues from whatever led to the person being in foster care in the first place. But there are also plenty of cases of healthy, well-adjusted adults who happened to go through a crappy system. You’ll never know unless you stick around to find out. [/quote]

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