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When you adopted this child didn't you make a commitment to parent him? If yes, why would you fight so hard to legally and practically abandon him? Should you have continued to parent him, you would have been entitled to all information relating to the recovery efforts that are now in place for him to try and correct his harmful behavior to others. Not only that, your concern, comitment, and involvement in his life would be a source of hope for him, and in all likelihood would motivate change in his behavior - instead, you bailed out on him, unfortunately for him, only making his chances for recovery much worse. If you gave birth to this child you couldn't "give him back"!!, but instead, you sent him a very cruel message. You could well have continued to parent and help him AND keep him away from your other children so he doesn't harm them - clearly you should not endanger any of your children, but you shouldn't abandon them emotionally either, even though you may now be off the hook legally. FC
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