After the first year, and re-adoption - you're done. Nobody ever looks at you again.
Unless you re-enter the system again, somehow - like this.
There are groups that our agency recommends, like Families with Children from China - that I also heartily recommend. This provides a number of things, besides keeping eyes on things. A social network. People doing what you're doing, going through what you're going through. Families that look like yours. Picnics. Playgroups. Support.
But that's not required. We joined a year ago when we got our referral, long before we picked up Xander in Taiwan.
I seriously doubt she even knew about them, mores the pity. Or if she did, didn't interact because she was too ashamed of being a drunk and a loser. She knew. That was the whole point of dropping the insanity defense, right?
Breaking point. The wise people always know their own limits.
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Unless you re-enter the system again, somehow - like this.
There are groups that our agency recommends, like Families with Children from China - that I also heartily recommend. This provides a number of things, besides keeping eyes on things. A social network. People doing what you're doing, going through what you're going through. Families that look like yours. Picnics. Playgroups. Support.
But that's not required. We joined a year ago when we got our referral, long before we picked up Xander in Taiwan.
I seriously doubt she even knew about them, mores the pity. Or if she did, didn't interact because she was too ashamed of being a drunk and a loser. She knew. That was the whole point of dropping the insanity defense, right?
Breaking point. The wise people always know their own limits.