Any other unhappy-ending adoptive parents out there?

[shootingstar]

I'm sorry that you are sad/disturbed by these memories. It sounds tough. Hope one day you will find an answer for this longing/memory/grieving... whatever. Hope someone walks with you to find the answer to greater wisdom and understanding. You are a good person and have done your best.

On a related topic, last night I was watching a videoclip by a gifted pediatric doctor on brain development and the effect of parenting and child's environment during lst 5 yrs. of life. The years before you received these children into your home. Let me try to find this thing. I'm sure many TE members who work with children, know some of these theories.

http://www.hbs.edu/centennial/busine...hallenges.html Bcarver, this is actually a conference on diversity and management. For an interesting reason, the panel included this doctor, whom you will see with white hair, seated beside the black prof. The black prof. speaks for 5 min. introducing all speakers. But the doctor will speak lst after all introductions. He is an engaging and warm speaker with a real gift for teaching. You can see/hear it.

I think they brought him in to speak to senior managers ..to help them make correlations how important it is to build organizations in a healthy way, (like nuturing a child??) recognize capabilities of people with different needs.

(For TE members, next speaker is about women in senior management (or lack of numbers) of possible interest, totally unrelated to children. Some good stories.)

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I'm not a parent and my partner has children from his former marriage.