How to treat a troubled child... unadopt him.

[nightwng2000]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15188209/

My heart and head hurts after reading this. My title seems rather harsh, but if you read the article, you'll understand how I can be both sympathetic and upset over this.

[BetaSword]

I find some of the things the author of the article wrote to be rather... Interesting. It's not very hard to see what his opinion of the whole matter is, that she's a horrible person and all that.

Personally, though... I don't know. While yeah, unadopting someone isn't a very good thing to do... When a person isn't told of certain things about a child when they're going through the adoption, that's not good either. Some people are able to take care of a child with problems like that. Some aren't. That lady is one of the people that isn't. Is that bad? Not necessarily. Though the fact that she wasn't told of any of the boy's problems... That is bad.

Grof. People are weird.

[Hank the Tank]

Dammit, this is a complicated issue.

Even if she did have to keep him, how would she deal with what he did to those 2 little girls?

How does one go about dealing wih someone who has done something like that?

I... I just don't know.

[KN]

I say un-birthen the kid O_O

I don't know how that would be achieved

[nightwng2000]

And it's also true that many would argue that some of his problems come from being in and out of foster homes. This unadoption isn't going to do him any good either. I wonder if part of the reason he has been in and out of foster homes, though, is for the same reason in this situation. That the agency never informed the other parents about his problems either.

To be honest, I don't see this kid ever getting any better. He's had problems with abuse since he was a baby. This kid has been screwed as well as being screwed up.

[Garbage Pail Kid]

If she can't handle him, then she shouldn't have him.