My name is Millie. I have read all of the posts on this introduction/forum, and not found any situation like ours. Going to go ahead and introduce myself anyway. We adopted 2 children, bio brother & sister from Kazakhstan in 2005. Boy was 16 and his sister almost 15 (3 weeks to go). We knew it would be tough but had no idea .....

Hi

I am mum to two adopted boys aged 4 and 8 years. My partner and I fostered, them at 3 weeks and 3 and a half years through concurrent planning, before adopting them 2 years ago. My eldest has ADHD and possible Attachment Disorder, not sure which one as "he is a complicated child" according to the professionals and are waiting for psychotherapy to start.

Alison

My husband and I recently adopted a 14 year-old boy from the foster care system. We also have 2 biological daughters 18, and 20. My son had been in foster care for 10 years and has had some pretty difficult situations to deal with. Right now he seems to be thriving and doing very well.

I have just adopted a 7 year old boy on Sept 15th 2008 and I am the Legal Guardian of his 10 year old sister. I have had the girl for almost 5 years and the boy for almost 4 years. The boy has R.A.D., P.T.S.D., A.D.H.D. and Self Harm. The girl is M.R. and A.D.D. Both are on meds of course. Abilify and VyVanse to be exact. We have been going to therapy once a week for 5 years now and they both see the physc. once a month. But in spite of all this the boy seems to be getting worse instead of better especially since the adoption.