RSteve
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My nephew's daughter. She was adopted as an infant when my nephew and his wife were both 44-years-old. My nephew's wife had uterine cancer in her twenties and hadn't planned on ever marrying. My nephew is a physician, who met his wife when she was employed at a clinic where he practiced. The graduate is a "big" girl who has had multiple emotional problems growing up. The adoption was semi-open. The girl had a fairly normal pre-adolescence until the birth mother requested that she come visit her. That was in the adoption contract. My nephew's wife accompanied my great niece to meet her bio-mother and some half siblings. The unmarried bio-mother, with several children, was living in a 50 feet trailer in a run down California trailer park.
My great niece was terrified. She asked her adoptive mother if she was going to be left there, and within a few minutes of the visit begged to leave there for home.
From that time on, the girl's problems began. Apparently after a terrible behavioral incident, my nephew asked her what was going on. She replied, "Daddy, what do you expect. We all know where I came from."
She's been raised in affluence, yet was arrested for shoplifting junk.
But she made it through high school, mostly by correspondence/distance learning and has been accepted as a "special" student at a well respected private university. I advised her parents to send her to a local public junior college at least for an orientation year. Instead, they'll pay $50K on a gamble.
I was both angry and saddened to hear that she has an internet boyfriend, who claims to be in England, to whom she's sent numerous gifts. My nephew says the boyfriend's IP address floats, which pretty much identifies him as a predator.
But, I'll go to the party and wish her well.
My great niece was terrified. She asked her adoptive mother if she was going to be left there, and within a few minutes of the visit begged to leave there for home.
From that time on, the girl's problems began. Apparently after a terrible behavioral incident, my nephew asked her what was going on. She replied, "Daddy, what do you expect. We all know where I came from."
She's been raised in affluence, yet was arrested for shoplifting junk.
But she made it through high school, mostly by correspondence/distance learning and has been accepted as a "special" student at a well respected private university. I advised her parents to send her to a local public junior college at least for an orientation year. Instead, they'll pay $50K on a gamble.
I was both angry and saddened to hear that she has an internet boyfriend, who claims to be in England, to whom she's sent numerous gifts. My nephew says the boyfriend's IP address floats, which pretty much identifies him as a predator.
But, I'll go to the party and wish her well.