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Old 12-12-2012, 17:24   #261
bzk
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Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

Adopted Child Syndrome:

Adopted child syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

See also:

Adopted Child Syndrome (ACS) - Amfor.Net

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Adoptees are 15 times more likely to kill one or both of their adoptive parents than biological children

Although I've only just started digging on the web, there is obviously quite a lot of psychology going on with adopted children. Even those adopted so young that they could have no conscience memory of their biological parents.

Please don't get me wrong, the vast majority will be happy well adjusted people, and almost certainly end up in better households than the one they were born into. Their life outcomes are no doubt improved way beyond what they would have been if they had stayed with their biological parent(s). I am making the point this is almost certainly the case with JW, but it does not come across in the TV programmes.
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