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Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Children with Attachment Disorder
A thoughtful piece in the Times by Penny Wark considers the difficulties facing adopters raising children with attachment disorders, profiling in particular Melanie Allen's experience. Melanie has written a book about it - The Trouble with Alex - which I have ordered from Amazon and then review.
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We have just heard Melanie's interview on Radio 4. Our family is in a similar situation. We asked social services for help with our adopted son, who has attachment disorder. We found ourselves thrust into the court arena with soc services applying for care orders for both children! We have been fighting this for a year now, and are exhausted. We thought we were alone, perhaps we are not.
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