Just read this post that are thoughts from a child who was adopted at 12 years old. Go read the whole thing, but here is an excerpt:
"When we used to live in Kazakhstan in the orphanage, we saw a lot of things we
shouldn't have seen. We saw lots of bad movies with a lot of violent things in
them or scary things, we saw kids who killed themselves because they were so
sad, we saw things with our first moms and dads that we shouldn't be seeing. I
think parents think we come like little, little kids, like Joshua and Matthew.
We can't help it, we aren't little and things happened around us that we
couldn't not see. It changes us, and you can't change that even if you love us.
Parents need to know we aren't like new babies, but we can still be good kids
if they stick with us and love us enough."
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