I went to school with a boy who started with nasty lunchroom pranks, and by eighth grade had committed violent attacks upon people and animals. He was removed from school and we never heard about him again. Like Nikolas Cruz he was adopted.
It really makes me wonder about the risks of adopting a child, if the child has been placed because the mother is mentally ill, abusive, drug-using or if she knows the father is mentally ill, violent, or psychopathic, and she is afraid of him and how his child might grow up.
In the old days of wide spread poverty and disease, children were placed for adoption because of misfortune in their families, or because they were born out of wedlock. Now our society is prosperous, early death is rare, and unwed mothers can raise children without stigma. Abortion is common too. So adopted children are coming from circumstances much more out of the norm than they used to.
Some adopted children will turn out really well, but I do think there is a risk people are afraid to discuss.
Agree. see post 25
I tend to agree. I’ve read quite a few accounts of Russian adoptions. Some have fetal alcohol syndrome, attachment disorder. His mom was older and treated him like baby, which surely did not help...plus had psychiatric issues, so throw the disgusting drugs in. Reminds me of that weirdo in Denver and super weirdo in Newton..two many to list...teacher, admin and dr’s KNEW. Police, FBI knew in this last one. And that creep that shot up the black church...you could tell by looking. I wish Trump would put a limited time group together to look at mental illness and how these disturbed teens can be dealt with. Pretty sure this would be effective on many levels.