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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Beta" data-source="post: 766006" data-attributes="member: 22597"><p>Thank you for sharing that.  Five years is a long time in a child's life. I think many personality traits are set in place by then, especially in the midst of trauma.  I'm sorry for what you are going through.  As an adoptive parent, I didn't realize how traumatizing it is for a child to be separated from their birth mother, even as infants, and I just thought that as long as you provided lots of love, affection, and nurturing, everything would be fine. Apparently, that is not often the case.   Now when I meet couples who have an adopted child, I wonder what they have ahead in their future. Will it be what many adoptive parents are experiencing with dysfunction and substance abuse?</p></blockquote><p></p>