Tag: overmedicated foster children

• Rescue From the Cuckoo’s Nest (An Adoption Story)

  

  One family’s story about adopting a child from foster care.

  Adrienne Morris

  April 2, 2022

  Adoption, Adrienne Morris

  adopting from foster care, Adoption, adoption stories, advocating for foster children, Complex Trauma in Foster Children, Foster Care, overmedicated foster children

• Rescue From the Cuckoo’s Nest (pt. 4)

  

  M’s issues as noted by the experts at the time: ADHD, PTSD, mild cognitive “delays.” Because we were only foster parents, we had no access to her previous medical or psychiatric records. We were completely dependent on the overworked social services and foster care agency staff. Things were hinted at or misrepresented or just misremembered.…

  Adrienne Morris

  March 31, 2022

  Adoption

  adopting from foster care, adoption stories, AdoptUSkids, attachment disorders adoption, Foster Care, overmedicated foster children, PTSD in children, reactive attachment disorder