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little mixed girl

Joined: 11 Jun 2003
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 8:20 am Post subject:

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Zed

Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 1:30 pm Post subject:

little mixed girl wrote:

i guess he's ok looking...i can't look too hard seeing that he's 84 and i'm 83 Rolling Eyes

A man one year younger? Am I misinterpreting this?

little mixed girl

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Ryst Helmut

Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 1:47 am Post subject:

Tiger Beer wrote:

I've also heard similar things among the African-American population who hope to go to a land dominated by African people.. only to find a completely different mindset than they expect and the exact opposite of what they had in a utopia 'motherland' kind of wishful thinking mindset..

True. And a side note, all the Africans I've actually asked said that black Americans are not (of) Africa(n). Ouch.

Growing up in asian neighbourhoods, I can remember the labels...and the competition amongst them on who is 'more' asian. Had to be the age...

Shoosh,

Ryst

TheUrbanMyth

Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 3:22 pm Post subject: Re: The challenge for gyopos

Drakoi wrote:

Derrek wrote:

Drakoi wrote:

One thing that article doesn't mention is that in the midwest, many of the adopting parents were religious fanatics that thought they were doing god's work by converting these children. And since we know how sexually repressed many of these religious types are, there was a high tendency to adopt healthy asian girls and subsequently molest them throughout their childhood.

Yeah, those muslim families that adopted Korean girls really were sexually repressed!

An all seriousness though, you described my Korean/American ex-gf's family very well -- except that she was not molested. Her adopted family was/is wonderful to her.

Do you have any articles that you can add links to here? I'm curious to read about this.

some googling yielded these

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9. According to a study published by the Child Welfare League of America, at least 5I percent of the adopted children had suffered, prior to adoption, more than minimal emotional deprivation. See A Follow-up Study of Adoptions: Post Placement Functioning of Adoption Families, Elizabeth A. Lawder et al., New York I969.
According to a study by David Gil (Violence Against Children, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, I970) only .4 percent of abused children were abused by adoptive parents. Since at least 2 percent of the children in the United States are adopted (Encyclopedia of Social Work, National Association of Social Workers, New York, I977), that means the rate of abuse by biological parents is five time that of adoptive parents.

http://www.etsu.edu/philos/faculty/hugh/lic-par.htm

This next one isn't about international adoption, but shows that abuse by adoptive parents is being discussed by birthmothers.

http://forums.adoption.com/t109236.html

this next one shows that idea is common enough to be put into creative works

http://www.trinitycross.net/rk/charpage3.html

And here is an article from Holt, international.

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Yet, at present, intercountry adoption agencies and facilitators have no responsibility to provide support for, or even to keep track of the children that they place in adoptive homes. This divorce of adoption process and outcome means that agencies do not feel accountable for placements, and many families whose children are diagnosed with special needs do not receive adequate guidance on how to manage or treat their children. Failure to provide pre- and post-adoption services in these cases increases the chances of a poor outcome.
Tragedies for both children and parents may develop when families are unprepared to deal with challenging children. Extreme examples include the death of a toddler at the hands of an adoptive mother in Colorado, and the removal by child protective services of two children allegedly abused by adoptive parents trying to control the children뭩 behavior on a flight home from Eastern Europe. Had these families understood that their children might have significant behavior problems, they might have chosen not to adopt them. If they went forward with the adoptions anyway, these sad outcomes might have been averted with pre-adoption training and post-adoption support services.

Nothing that really supports my point, except for my earlier reply about the girls I know.

But where in these articles does it say these children were molested by religous fanatics? And can you provide links that prove "we know how sexually repressed many of these types are?"

What's that? You can't? So it is just unfounded speculation? That's what I thought.

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