Stunned
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The kids born with opiates that I work with have MAJOR behavioral problems. Also RAD, ADHD..etc. I call them my alphabet kids. I think the children of this opiate crisis, are the real victims and the least talked about!What a confused world little AJ lived in (and out of) in his short life. Foster home(s?) and neglect with his birth Mom. Was even half of his life anything that resembles functional? Perhaps he was more secure in foster care than at his birth Mother’s “home”. Mom’s record of relapse is evident in DCFS records and following documented “treatment” instances, she becomes pregnant (shortly thereafter, even). I’m wondering how that affected him, emotionally. Did the little guy have behavioral challenges? I wouldn’t be surprised at all, considering what he’d been through. Could his birth parents cope, especially if they were “using” and did his behavior worsen? (NOT victim blaming a five year old!) It’s possible birth parents did not have the skills to deal w/AJ and things got out of hand, went too far.
Thinking of Dad’s on-camera comments yesterday, asking AJ to coming home and telling his missing five year old that “he wouldn’t be in trouble”. Dad was playing for the cameras, you can see him making eye contact, aware that they were there. SM(creaking)H.
Also the foster care system in my county is totally overwhelmed by these poor kids! It is not unusual that a child with such behaviors is in his 10th home by 3.