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Attachment and Adoption Part 2– Ridghaus and the Six Word Adoption Memoir

Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories

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Adoption - The Ultimate Lesson of She and Riggie's Stories

Ridge's biological mother legally adopted him. He then left his old name behind, and he became rich house an amalgam of his biological mother and fathers names. Car a postscript to ridge's story. I agree with ridge that family preservation is the ideal. And yet, in my work, i regularly see patients who are patently unable to care for their children due to severe mental illness,. or chronic adiction or trib adoption should be rare and avoided if possible. But we need to recognize that attachment and accidental wounds are part and parcel of the process of separating a child from the biological parents. We all to feel unconditionally loved and accepted by some one, most ideally by the parent

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