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<blockquote data-quote="Nomad" data-source="post: 761472" data-attributes="member: 4152"><p>You are extraordinarily fortunate, Crayola. 100 percent of the folks I know in my former city (we moved a few years back) who adopted have severally mentally ill adult children and interestingly , are also now divorced.</p><p></p><p>We found out not too long ago, but it was zero surprise really, that both bio parents were /are mentally ill. It’s extremely prevalent in both bio parent families, with her birth mother being the sickest. It’s profoundly sad. Some seem to be doing ok. That was nice to see.</p><p></p><p>Nature almost always wins out over nurture.Big time. </p><p></p><p>My friend got the shock of her life when she helped her adopted daughter find bio mother. Friend was super nice, husband /father had a phD, grandma visited often and lived with them at the end. She was a nurse. Always sweet. Hiwever, daughter had borderline personality disorder, shades of bipolar, prone to depression snd was an alcoholic. When they found the bio mother…she was exactly the same. We were both taken aback. </p><p></p><p>Nature vs nurture. Use to be somewhat of a debate. Nature wins. Might not be 100 percent…but larger than one tends to think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nomad, post: 761472, member: 4152"] You are extraordinarily fortunate, Crayola. 100 percent of the folks I know in my former city (we moved a few years back) who adopted have severally mentally ill adult children and interestingly , are also now divorced. We found out not too long ago, but it was zero surprise really, that both bio parents were /are mentally ill. It’s extremely prevalent in both bio parent families, with her birth mother being the sickest. It’s profoundly sad. Some seem to be doing ok. That was nice to see. Nature almost always wins out over nurture.Big time. My friend got the shock of her life when she helped her adopted daughter find bio mother. Friend was super nice, husband /father had a phD, grandma visited often and lived with them at the end. She was a nurse. Always sweet. Hiwever, daughter had borderline personality disorder, shades of bipolar, prone to depression snd was an alcoholic. When they found the bio mother…she was exactly the same. We were both taken aback. Nature vs nurture. Use to be somewhat of a debate. Nature wins. Might not be 100 percent…but larger than one tends to think. [/QUOTE]
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