Posts Tagged ‘neglect’
Post Traumatic Stress in Post Institutionalized Children
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Since adopting AJ we have been dealing with symptoms of Institutional Autism, something that the Autism community thinks is a quack theory but an illness and diagnosis that we know to be very real.
We know that AJ had a very traumatic life in the orphanage but we don’t know why....
October 28th, 2009 | Feature | Read More
Russian Street Children
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Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe first time I saw this I was so saddened that it was all I thought about all day. The images flooded my mind when I lay my head down to sleep.
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It makes me think that AJ was one of the lucky ones to be placed in the orphanage. When you watch you...
September 24th, 2009 | Russia | Read More
Oprah, on Neglect
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Republished by Blog Post PromoterWhat happens to a child who grows up with virtually no parenting, love, affection or human touch? “Nearly everything we learn about being human—how to speak, how to walk, everything—comes from the people who raise us,” Oprah says. “Today,...
August 22nd, 2009 | Special Needs | Read More
Can you blame it all on “adoption”?
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I am personally not a blamer. I never liked the mind set that everything is someone else’s fault. I’ve made mistakes, as has everyone – I’m sure in my younger life I wanted badly to blame someone or something else…but as an adult, I have to look back...
July 12th, 2009 | Attachment, Feature | Read More





