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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Beta" data-source="post: 765996" data-attributes="member: 22597"><p>You may have mentioned this previously, but I just re-read your profile information and noticed that your daughter is adopted. May I ask how old she was when you brought her home? Our son was 4 months old. Young enough that it never occurred to me that he might still be affected by trauma. I was reading an article the other day about adopted kids, and the article said that regardless of when a child is adopted, even within hours after birth, there is still intrinsic trauma just from being separated from the biological mom with whom the baby has only known.  Adopted kids have a higher incidence of mental illness than biological kids.  I wish I had known these things years ago.  I might have spotted the signs much earlier, or avoided it altogether by not adopting.</p></blockquote><p></p>