At the same time, many other people adopted from Belarus and their lives were made into hell by dysfunctional, mentally ill, chronically sick, and emotionally damaged children. A lot of loving families ended up in divorce after one of these children came into the family.
It's not so simple as just adding a kid to your family.
Thanks for the kind words. That's a statement we can validate - it is no easy charge, but if you can endure it, the reward is tremendous.
When we brought our 13 yr old home, she was CL&P needing reconstructive surgical procedures, she weighed 55 lbs, and she exhibited all the symptoms of Reactive Attachment Disorder (the tantrums of rage were exacerbated by her inability to express herself in our language - she had only 20 or so English words in her vocabulary). Now, with the Lord's help and that of some other wonderful folks, she just turned 16, she has only one more procedure to endure, is reading fourth grade level English, and is an A-B (honor role) student at school (plus, she talks all the time, yep she's the average female..;-)). She told her mom she felt her life was "perfect"...
We - her mom and I, enjoy all this progress of hers PLUS, we get to teach her of those biblical principles that were alien to her in her earlier youth.
The Lord does work in mysterious ways and wants to use us as his venue, if we're willing...