A look at post-adoption services
“Adoption begins the healing journey,” Pam Wolfe, founder and executive director of Harmony Adoptions in Maryville, said with a smile. “Adoptive families need a lot of support along the way.”
Note: This is one of those articles that is sugar coated by the System Sucks. I usually avoid posting this kind of crap, but this one was just interesting. Why? Because usually they preach the "Happily Ever After" view of adoption. Now they admit to needing to provide ongoing support for adoptive parents because of the high rates of failed adoptions?
What do you think clued them into this?
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“The national disruption rate is from 15 to 25 percent,” said Wolfe. Disruption refers to the number of children who, because of incompatibilities, are forced to leave their adoptive families. “The disruption rate of the families we work with is less than 1 percent.”
Note: See, here we go. 15 to 25% of forever homes fail and they use terms like "disruption." In reality, once the novelty wears off, it's no different than getting rid of an unwanted puppy. To the child, it's just another broken promise. To these people at the adoption agencies, it's business as usual.
Just pay attention to how they turn this from a major systematic failure into one of those wonderful people helping out articles.
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