I once knew of a couple that let an adopted child “go back”, and people looked down on the couple for doing so. The child was incorrigible as I understood it.
We almost need the technology to be able (and i hate to say it) “Mind Wipe” some of these severly abused adopted childrent to help clear out all the psychological trauma that remains in them. While this tech would be a god send for the children themselves as long as they were sent to caring loving non-abusive families, as well as for the families adopting them. I know it would definetly be abused by people who enguage inhuman trafficking.
The question is, when the tech becomes availible to do this thing, when and how if ever should it be used?
Wouldn;t it be the death of a child personality for the convienice of the adoptive parents? Or would it be a mercy in that the child could be wiped clean like a computer with malware that has the whole OS re-installed? Meaning it would be a mercy for the child in that it would give them a better “shot” at a sucessful adult life.
I have friends (who are wonderful parents) who fostered (or adopted) an older boy early in their marriage when they just had one little girl of their own. I did not know them then, so I’m not sure exactly what happened. As I understand it, the foster child molested (or attempted to molest) their daughter so they sent him back.
Many years later he looked them up to tell them that their home was the best he had throughout his whole childhood and that he was sorry. They felt really bad about the whole thing and were uneasy about his visit, even though everybody was grown up by then.