Adoption Disruptions/Dissolutions Increase
I hate to admit this but about six months after we adopted AJ it crossed my mind.
Fleetingly.
And you all know that I am as honest as the day comes.
I was exhausted. I was not just tired, I was exhausted to the point that getting up in the morning was painful. I would daydream about naptime and I would forfeit my lunch just to get a few more minutes of precious sleep.
Disruption and Dissolution
You may have read about a prominent Dutch diplomat and his wife who “returned” their Korean daughter, whom they adopted when she was four months old. They handed the girl over to social workers in Hong Kong saying the adoption had not worked out.
In a statement published by Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, Raymond Poeteray — a Hong Kong-based Consul — said his daughter was “very sick,” and suffers from a “severe form of fear of emotional attachment.”
The child currently lives in a separate house, (the Hong Kong Foster system) and the entire family is in therapy.
“We tried intensive family …read more




