Not always the adoption of a child looks like a beautiful fairy tale about salvation and love. Sometimes you want to save already adoptive parents. Orphans who grew up without parental affection sometimes experience things so terrible that, it would seem, it is no longer possible to help them become normal people. This is how baby Beth Thomas seemed to everyone many years ago.
Beth was just over a year old and her brother Jonathan a few weeks old when their mother died. The children stayed with their father, who turned out to be a real monster and a psychopath. He not only did not take care of the children, but even committed sexual acts against his daughter, who was not yet two years old.
The girl was only 19 months old when she and her brother were taken away from her father and given to a foster family. Jonathan was seven months old and the back of his head was completely flat, due to the fact that the boy was constantly lying in his crib. And Beth suffered from terrible nightmares.
The adoptive parents did not know all the details of the children’s past family life. In addition, they were sure that the kids, surrounded by warmth and care, would quickly recover from psychological trauma. After all, they lived with their father for only a little over six months.
But soon the whole family began to notice that Beth was behaving very strangely. Parents took Beth to a psychiatrist and soon learned the terrible truth about their daughter. Due to the constant bullying by her father, the girl did not feel either love or sympathy.
The psychiatrist recorded a conversation with Beth on video, and the parents shed tears, watching her with a terrible smile talk about her plans to kill the whole family in their sleep. To help their daughter, the Thomas spouses decided to turn to a specialized center for helping victims of violence.
A lot of time passed, but, in the end, the experts taught the girl to understand and appreciate the signs of attention of others and reciprocate them. The girl had to learn from scratch to treat herself as a person who is loved and appreciated. It took Beth a whole year to finally start acting like other girls her age. She went to school, made friends and began to sing in the church choir.
But many more years passed before Beth learned to trust people and love them. She graduated from university and now works as a nurse in the maternity ward. For excellent work, she even received a professional award. Who knows, maybe childhood traumas still make themselves felt sometimes and help a woman to discard pity for the patient in time and keep a cool head.
Every year, several thousand adopted children return to orphanages. Foster parents, faced with the strange behavior of the child, understand that they have taken on an overwhelming burden. And they take the child back … Like a defective product.
Children with a particularly difficult past sometimes find themselves abandoned multiple times. Each time they become more and more embittered, convinced of their own worthlessness and the soullessness of the world, they lose the ability to love and care for others.
