This isn't how adoption is supposed to work

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:06 PM EDT

Article Source: New Times

Matthew, the middle child, was about 8 when he sidled up to Debbie. "He said, 'Mommy come here,' " she remembers. He told her he had been lifting weights. "Guess how much I weigh now," he whispered. "'I'm getting bigger, and I'm getting stronger, and I will kill you. When the knife goes in, you'll know it."

Debbie tried to hide her panic. She'd learned that attachment disordered kids often took out their hostility on the person closest to them. Any loving gesture repulsed them. They were especially mean to women, and their favorite target was mom.

"It's like a porcupine," therapist Lori Angulo would later explain in a deposition. When a person gets emotionally close, "they act out. They can pull you in for a little bit, and you think you're getting closer. And then if they become vulnerable at all, they will sabotage that."

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Matthew, the middle child, was about 8 when he sidled up to Debbie. "He said, 'Mommy come here,' " she remembers. He told her he had been lifting weights. "Guess how much I weigh now," he whispered. "'I'm getting bigger, and I'm getting stronger, and I will kill you. When the knife goes in, you'll know it."

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#1 - Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:08 PM EDT

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The Angry Blonde

If I were these adoptive parents, I'd be terrified. Actually, I am frightened for the time when these "children" are released into society.

This is absolutely horrible, beginning from the birth mother, to the foster parents, to DCF and Florida Government....they should all feel ashamed and should all be held accountable.

TAB~

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#2 - Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:10 PM EDT

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