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	Adopted child syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Adopted child syndrome is a set of symptoms that are associated primarily with children who have been adopted or separated from their parent/s at a very early age.
		This theory states that the relationship that a child has with his or her mother is the most important relationship in the world, and when the mother is parted from her child, it causes a psychological wound that can only be healed through the reunion of mother and child.
		Abandoned child syndrome is a very closely related phenomenon that applies to children who were not adopted in the strict sense of the word, but felt abandoned.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adopted_child_syndrome (529 words)

	Mental Health of the Adopted Child
		But the ego of the adopted child, in addition to all the demands made upon it, is called upon to compensate for the wound left by the loss of the biological mother".
		Both for the child and the natural mother, that period is part of the biological sequence, and it is to be doubted whether the relationship of the child to it's post partum mother, in its subtler effects, can be replaced by even the best of substitute mothers.
		The child who is placed in infancy has the opportunity of passing through his oedipal development in relation to his adoptive parents without an interruption, that in the childs phantasy, may amount to the most severe of punishments.
	www.angelfire.com /or/originsnsw/child.html (5068 words)

	THE ADOPTED CHILD- Daycare.com
		Parents with an adopted child wonder whether, when, and how to tell their child that he or she is adopted.
		If the child first learns about the adoption intentionally or accidentally from someone other than parents, the child may feel anger and mistrust towards the parents, and may view the adoption as bad or shameful because it was kept a secret.
		In adolescence, the adopted child is likely to have an increased interest in his or her birth parents.
	www.daycare.com /fastfacts/adopt.html (629 words)

	Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The child is evaluated by the ophthalmologist and the stronger eye is usually patched to strengthen the weaker eye.
		The globe of the eye is smaller in a child with FAS and the shape of the eyes affects the visual capacity of the eyes.
		After the child’s third birthday, the child is evaluated by a child study team in the school district of the family’s home.
	www.russianadoption.org /fas.htm (3004 words)

	Being afraid to adopt
		She adopted him when he was 8, after he had been in and out of six foster homes.
		The syndrome was introduced in the 1984 trial of a teen-ager charged with setting fire to his adoptive parents' home and murdering them.
		With a defense such as adopted child syndrome, Alterio probably would have to convince a judge the disease is recognized by the medical community and worthy of being introduced at trial, said John Rago, associate dean and assistant professor at Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh.
	www.post-gazette.com /neigh_washington/20020310wacover2.asp (1524 words)

	Maternal Instinct
		The birth certificates of adopted children are falsified to show that the adopters are the "parents" since the date of the child's birth and an effort is made to remove all traces of the natural parents' identities.
		Adopted people, although reportedly estimated to be only 2-3% of the American population, make up as much as 45% of the patients in psychiatric treatment facilities.
		Obviously, taking a child from his or her natural family and raising him or her "as if born to" strangers is not to the benefit of that child's psychological health.
	www.loricarangelo.com /MaternalInstinct.html (4055 words)

	Pathology And Adoptive Status - Adoption Encyclopedia
		Some adoption writers believe adopted persons are at risk for developing certain problems.
		Psychologist David Kirschner has claimed that 5% to 10% of adopted children develop "adopted child syndrome," which includes such behaviors as lying, stealing, learning difficulties and occasional violent acts.
		Some adopted persons believe traditional adoption is the problem, not the answer, and are pressing for open records.
	encyclopedia.adoption.com /entry/.../273/1.html (319 words)

	Alive in my Heart (Reunion Story) - www.amfor.net
		Lois said "her son" had always wanted to know about "the mother." Her primary concern, however, was that she did not want her adopted son, or me, to be hurt if I was not his mother after all.
		As with many adoptees, the burden of presumed rejection led to behaviors described by psychologists as "adopted child syndrome" behaviors that got him in minor trouble with the law.
		Despite that, in the 1960's, social work theory had changed from "Don't tell if they don't ask," to "Tell the child of his adoptive status when he is mature enough to understand," the practice of "matching" continued so that adopters would appear to the world to be genetically related to the adoptee.
	www.loricarangelo.com /ReunionStory.html (4297 words)

	Infectious Disease and the Internationally Adopted Child (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Unless the child has an 'excludable condition' diagnosed, the results of the visa examination are almost never made available to the adopting parent or to the pediatrician providing subsequent care.
		Reactions of greater than 5 mm in the HIV-infected child or greater than 10 mm in the HIV negative child should be evaluated and the child began in the appropriate prophylactic or therapeutic course.
		Although the countries of origin of internationally adopted children are changing, the circumstances leading to availability for adoption remain the same: poverty, abandonment, abuse or neglect and political upheaval.
	www.adoptvietnam.org /adoption/infectious-disease.htm (4031 words)

	Emerging Defenses to Crime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Barron's Medical Dictionary defines "syndrome" as a complex of signs and symptoms presenting a clinical picture of a disease or disorder.
		Richard 1989, CA) often the claim of child molesters that they are not responsible because they were high on drugs at the time, generally unsuccessful.
		Mack himself admits he cannot recommend a disease syndrome, but implies that alien abductions are to blame for many people's behaviors.
	faculty.ncwc.edu /toconnor/405/405lect02.htm (1780 words)

	Adopted Child Syndrome (ACS) - Amfor.Net
		In 1993 and 1994, the Syndrome was used as a defense in two cases of juvenile adoptees who murdered their adopters.
		Kirschner, a child psychologist, identified the Syndrome as a contributing factor with regard to Patrick DeGellecke who was 14 when he killed his adopters by setting fire to their home.
		He believes there may be a reaction experienced by the adopted child that is the most primitive wound to the psyche, and is experienced at the very essence of his/her humanity even in adulthood.
	www.amfor.net /acs (1970 words)

	FAS (Adoption) (Family Helper, www.familyhelper.net)
		Robin Hilborn covers all the aspects of raising the adopted child with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, from diagnosis to education and finding a place in society.
		The child with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is born with physical and mental defects.
		Consider that alcohol may have been a factor in why your adopted child acts the way she does.
	www.familyhelper.net /pa/phfas.html (384 words)

	Alcohol Related Disorders and Children Adopted from Abroad
		She was adopted at the same time as a 3 year old boy (unrelated), who is now 4 years old and is not affected by alcohol.
		Laboratory studies standard for a child adopted from abroad were performed when she first arrived in the U.S. and were all normal.
		As part of the evaluation for a child with suspected Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, she had a genetics/dysmorphology consultation, a hearing test, a pediatric ophthalmologic evaluation, a cardiac consultation with echocardiogram, a kidney sonogram, and a pediatric surgery evaluation for some toe abnormalities.
	www.orphandoctor.com /medical/commondiseases/fas/alcoholrelated.html (8136 words)

	A Family for Every Child: - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Not everyone agreed with our decision to adopt a child with special needs, and most were less than subtle about it; others did not even believe in adoption in the first place.
		While I believe that every child has a purpose and a place in the world, we never chose to adopt out of a sense of duty or responsibility.
		Recently I found out that if we wanted to adopt a child through out state office we would have to get a private homestudy done, but if interested in a child from Child Protective Services, they would do the study without a fee.
	library.adoption.com /Down-Syndrome/A-Family-for-Every-Child/article/204/1.html (1265 words)

	ABOLISH ADOPTION - A Petition by Americans For Open Records
		No one should be subjected to being taken away from one's biological parent due to the biological parent being in a stressful situation when a child is born and pressured by social workers to give up all parental rights to the child.
		Nor should any child be subjected to being given to an infertile couple who most likely see prospective adoptees as little more than commodities available to meet the adoptive parents' desires.
		If the parent/s' parental rights are terminated, the Guardian may legally adopt the child with DCYF's help [not favored because Guardianship better serves the Child than Adoption with individualized conditions of custody over time, including accountability, open records--all the things that Adoption activists claim they want Adoption to be].
	www.abolishadoption.com (2070 words)

	Growth Charts for Children with Down Syndrome
		We can find the 10th percentile by plotting child number 10, and the 90th percentile would be the height of child number 90.
		If you plot your child's data, and he or she is shown as being in the 50th percentile, you could assume if we lined up 100 children your child's age, that 49 would be shorter and 50 taller than he or she.
		Children with Down Syndrome are less likely than typical children to remain at a given percentile level.
	www.growthcharts.com /charts/DS/charts.htm (376 words)

	CERI: Dixie Lawrence Interview
		With Down’s syndrome, there are too many ingredients in the human “recipe.” Unlike trisomy 18 and trisomy 13 which alter the recipe so much that the fetus dies or the child lives only a short time, the trisomy 21 recipe is correctable.
		Puchel’s work on the neurological aspects of Down’s syndrome has shown that areas of the brain do not connect properly, and that the transmission of information between the two hemispheres of the brain is garbled.
		Untreated Down’s syndrome children have an under-development of the nasal bridge and the sinuses, and an under-development of the mandible and maxilla [lower and upper jaw] which really interferes with dentition.
	www.ceri.com /dixie.htm (4042 words)

	Duane Syndrome
		A friend of mine (who is adopted) recently had a baby of her own.
		My friend was born with Duane Syndrome and has been unable to get any information on whether this syndrome is 1) hereditary, 2) other abnormalities that may be associated with it, 3) at what age it typically becomes apparent that a child has this syndrome.
		She is trying to get a medical history together for her child's sake, but being adopted herself with no medical background is making this a difficult task.
	www.medhelp.org /forums/eyecare/archive/1670.html (137 words)

	Alcohol Related Birth Defects and International Adoption
		Children who are adopted into new families whether foster, foster kinship, or adoptive, have a better prognosis than children who stay in an environment where drugs and alcohol continue to be used by parents or caretakers.
		Newer research has confirmed a better prognosis for children with FAS who were adopted into new families.
		Effects on the Child of Alcohol Abuse During Pregnancy: Retrospective and Prospective Studies.
	www.orphandoctor.com /services/preadoptconsult/alcoholrbd.html (3751 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Raising Adopted Children: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Chapters on open adoption, international adoption, and transracial adoption are combined with advice on bonding and attachment, breast-feeding an adoptive infant (possible but complicated), dealing with schools, privacy issues, adopting a child with disabilities, adopting as a single parent, and the challenges of adolescence.
		In this comprehensive exploration of adoption issues (bonding and attachment, family adjustment, contact with biological relatives, etc.), the authoran adoptive parent and the editor of Adopted Child newsletteraims for a wide audience: parents, adoptees, and related professionals.
		Even the happiest adopted child, in the very best of circumstances, will have certain issues throughout their life and their parents should be prepared to deal with these and answer questions.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060957174?v=glance (1781 words)

	Trubble's CatBox > Abused by my daughter
		Let me start with my beginning: I am an only child, adopted at the age of 3 wks by an neurotic self absorbed mother and an alcoholic passive/agressive father.
		It was a lonely existence being an only child with no identity, better known as "adopted child syndrome".
		At around age 11, your daughter adopted the persona she would have the rest of her life UNLESS there was a significant emotional event (SEE) in here life that would cause her to question and change her moral values.
	www.drirene.com /catbox/lofiversion/index.php?t7166.html (3226 words)

	FASlink - Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Listserv (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Faslink welcomed me, answered any and all questions I posted to the link, and for me, finally having someone who understood that when I said my daughter had tantrums, were there to support me and build me up when professionals didn't believe that her tantrums were explosive and a threat to her safety.
		We had been told that our adopted daughter had Foetal Alcohol Syndrome, but in the UK there was no information in the condition, nor support for sufferers, parents, carers and teachers.
		He is the parent of a child with FAS, and he is also an ardent supporter of FAS/E causes not only in Canada but around the world.
	www.acbr.com /fas/faslink.htm (4163 words)

	Donor Offspring - www.amfor.net
		They refuse to consider the cost to the child, their main argument being that because the baby is 'loved and wanted' the child will not miss knowing the other parent or half their family.
		A woman and a child who were conceived using sperm from anonymous donors will begin a High Court action next week to try to discover more about their genetic fathers.
		DON'T say anything about being a donor child -- It's your record--ask for it as anyone would ask for their own record on the chance that there may be a notation about whoever performed the insemination procedure and where etc...
	www.donoroffspringregistry.com (3321 words)

	Book Review: The Abuse Excuse by Alan M. Dershowitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		That horrific instance of the abuse excuse led to hung juries despite the brothers' admission of the killings and the skit-fodder phoniness of their courtroom histrionics.
		An inebriated woman driver who tried to kick a police officer in the groin (without provocation), and who later assaulted the breathalyzer, claimed the scourge of premenstrual syndrome as her excuse.
		Black rage, adopted-child syndrome, battered husband syndrome ("At times I have felt like a battered husband or boyfriend," wrote O.J. Simpson in what was to be his parting epistle), the minister, the Super Bowl, the Holocaust, Twinkies, the wrong self-help book, or the oppressive system made me do it.
	www.fee.org /vnews.php?nid=3261 (531 words)

	Statistics on the Effects of Adoption on Adoptees and 'Birthmothers'
		Adopted 'children' are disproportionately represented with learning disabilities and organic brain syndrome.
		50 to 70% of the teens at The Haven in New Trier Township, Illinois, are adopted.
		In an existential sense, the past is as important to adopted people as their future.
	www.adoptioncrossroads.org /ginni.html (1603 words)

	Adopted Killers from Chosen Children by Lori Carangelo
		While many factors come into play with regard to criminal behaviors, the fact of the adoption, and Adopted Child Syndrome is purposely overlooked at trial because it is "politically incorrect" to explore adoption's negative negative effects on the adoptee.
		Ninety-eight percent of all homicides are committed by men; 98% of all serial killers and mass murderers are men (Jack Levin, PhD, Criminologist, Northeastern University).
		Most adoptees who kill, as well as adoptees incarcerated for other crimes, were adopted at birth.
	www.amfor.net /killers/intro.html (408 words)

	PARENTING YOUR ADOPTED OLDER CHILD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		She specializes in pre- and postadoption issues including counseling for adoptive and foster families in crisis and for families and children dealing with challenges such as fetal alcohol syndrome, ADHD, conduct disorder, attachment disorder, developmental delays, and cognitive impairment.
		McCreight is also an adult educator for both professional and lay audiences on issues related to child development, child trauma, adoptive and foster family relationships, and child behavior disorders.
		She lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia with her partner; they have nine children, seven of whom were adopted as older children.
	www.tapestrybooks.com /catalog/moreinfo/parolder.html (142 words)

	Chosen Children by Lori Carangelo - Reviews
		The action can and does endure the separation, but has great implications for the mother, father, and the child whose relationship, when severed by an adoption, can only be healed by a 're-union' in whatever form it takes.
		This re-union is in many cases hampered by the government and those very professionals and agencies purported to be the vehicle that began the healing after the birth of an unexpected or unwanted child.
		It is our view of the adoptive child that he/she perceives many people in his world as 'strangers.' This may even include adoptive parents.
	thechosenchildren.com /reviews.html (783 words)

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