Victoria Bristow's experience highlights the struggles faced by adoptive families with neurodiverse children. After adopting two siblings, she encountered severe behavioral challenges, leading to her son's removal due to insufficient support. Despite her deep love for her son, she found it impossible to manage his aggressive behaviors alone. With her son in a residential placement receiving necessary support, she expressed concern over funding cuts to crucial therapy services that support families like hers. Bristow's case illustrates the pressing need for enhanced support structures for adoptive families amid calls for more adoptions.
I can hate some of the things my son has done but I love him. I want him to be a happy adult with a fulfilled existence, surrounded by family and friends that love him.
That support has been life saving, and I know that sounds dramatic, but it's really not. Families are held together by this therapeutic work, it is the glue.
There's a lot of talk about recruiting new adopters and that scares me because the system can't support the adopters that are already in existence.
I had to beg social services to accommodate my son, even though medical professionals and the police advised it was the best course of action.
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