Stahlke Adoption

The Long Haul

The adoption literature often mentions that children will assume, from their past experiences, that their new parents will abandon them. To avoid a long period of emotional pain, the child will work hard to speed up this process, since to them it's inevitable. That means acting out--in a big way. It's the parents' job to hang on, provide consistent discipline, and assure the child that they are part of the family--forever.

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