[Mamzelle]

re: It is infuriating that people will adopt a foreign child without the fortitude to handle the problems that may come with them.)))

Yeah, it's like the most heartbreaking kind of status-seeking. Sometimes it works out really well, but often it does not. Parents who already have other children are a good bet for this, or have excellent support from churches and schools.

If you are a health professional, you see some awful things that go bad with adopting a child, even a toddler. Sometimes they have been so abused that they are a dangerous sociopath.

Vanity is also to be wary of--the Uber Mother with a Heart of Gold, who can with her Supernatural Love make any problem go away.

[Mears]

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