This foster and adoptive mom says it as well as anyone could.
Before adoption, and thankfully afterward, her efforts worked out. But she had her one dank period right after adoption papers were filed.
The children's behavior did an about-face. Now, not only did they have the usual anxieties and fears, but they went into outright rebellion. They pushed us away, perhaps as a way of giving up on us before we could give up on them, the way others had done. Suddenly, nothing we did was enough. There were problems at school, and false allegations were made to the foster care agency, leading to additional supervision and monitoring of the placement. The adoption process ground to a halt.
Read it yourself here.
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